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FILE NAME: Abex (ABX)
DATE: 1948 Nov 12
DOC#: ABX306
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Letter to American BrakeBlok from Vandiver Brown RE Asbestos Dust Experiments
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Mr. v. t. Solly. Jr.
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Aneriean BrakoBlok Division
2)0ofPtaerktrilrMmn Bi .rake Shoo Conpaay,
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Im Sark 17 l.t.
Aifct*?i Pw.vJa trlita U
Daar Hr. Ballyt
The am U m to consider tha Saranac m o r t aao
hold yesterday aa aebodolsd, 1th all tha imtarastad coapaalaa
repressotad aaeapt Tha Raaaall Baaufaeturlns Co. X road to tha
vatlni* Or. BaalIn'a usooraadus of loaaabar 3rd and it aaa
. tha c m i m i w that his jnrtgawt aaa aorraot eonearaiag tha
rafaraneas to pneunonia uoo| tha akperlmental anlaala. Ao-
aardiofly aa alii not raqaast that thla ha dalatad hat nsrsly
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that It ha aooiflad aooaaaat alta tha ai of platina aora
oaphssla am tha ihetora ahleh aada it doubtful ahathar tha
Alsaasa daaalopad u a raoalt of dost sposare.
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It aao tha ananlaous opinion hoaavar that tha rofaranaa
to eanear and tonora ahould ba dalatad and thla la a point aa
111 insist poo for tha folloalac rassonai
1. Tbs oxparlnsrita vara not diractad towards datar nlnlnc tha ino&dsnca If any of oaaotr aa a rasult of asbastoa dust aspoaura.
2. Or. Oardnar Indiestad prior to hla daath that ha bsllavad thla aapaet ahould ha ssd tbs subject
of a sapsrata study ahleh sold take fro two to throa poors.
3. Or. Oardnar also indlsatad that ha believed ttao susstlon of eanear suscoptiblilty should ba anlttad fro tha raport. This statassi* la c w > talnod In hla lattar to aa f February 24, 1943 with ahleh ho atelosad hla outllna of a proposed onocraph on aahaatosla.
4 . St also appears t n m Or. Oardnar'a outllna that
sartaln strains of white lea dsvslop tnoora
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without apparent causa and that *sueh a strain
of abito lee was M ntenttonally sad In thrao
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Inhalation osparlnanta 1th asbestos*.
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