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1 included in that group of people he has studied.
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2 Q Now, you mentioned the disease asbestosis.
3 How long has it been, from your review of
4 the medical and scientific literature, that the
5 disease asbestosis was reported in the medical
6 literature?
7 A Asbestosis was first recognized in 1924 by
8 Cooke.
9 Q You also mentioned the disease lung cancer,
10 asbestos-related lung cancer.
11 How long has that been reported in the
12 medical and scientific literature, from your review?
13 A The first case reports of lung cancer in
14 people who had the disease asbestosis were in 1935.
15 The first semi-epidemiologic study was in
16 1943, by a German pathologist by the name of Wedler,
17 W-e-d-l-e-r, and the next epidemiologic study was 1947
18 -- 1949, by Dr. Merewether in Great Britain, and then
19 after that, there were many, many.
20 In 1955 it was reported by the same person,
21 Dr. Doll, who also looked at cigarette smoking, and