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FILE NAME: Asbestos Z>> DATE: DOC#: AC> OCUMENT DESCRIPTIONDZZZZZ> ZDZZ>ZZ Barry Castleman, Sc.D. Environmental Consultant May 11, 2000 Mr. John Ned Lipsitz Re: William Cooling Dear Mr. Lipsitz: I am writing to confirm that I discovered the file of William Cooling in the archives of Dr. Arthur Vorwald, located in the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, DC. This was one of the individual "patient files" in the Vorwald collection, which I examined on two separate occasions. The Cooling file struck me as especially interesting because of Mr. Cooling's position with Asbestos Corporation Ltd. The Cooling case was apparently one of the cases referred to by Dr. Cartier in his 1952 "discussion" published in the A. M. A. Archives of Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Medicine in 1952, where he listed as the last patient in Table 3 a "W.C." with 0 years of exposure, 28 years in (asbestos) industry, age at death 65, and "pleural mesothelioma". Dr. Cartier was describing the mortality of asbestos miners in Thetford Mines, where his clinic operated, and where Asbestos Corporation Limited was one of the several mining companies. I enclose the descriptive page from the Cooling file (I.M. 573) and Dr. Cartier's 1952 "Abstract of Discussion" from the Archives. This case has been noted in my book, Asbestos: Medical and Legal Aspects, since the second edition was published in 1986. R >, 18 2412 PICKWICK ROAD BALi/MORE. MD 21207-6631 tel. 410-448-2648 bcast/e@mai/.bcp/./ib.md.us fax 410-448-2368 WAYNE STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE UNIVERSITY 1401 RIVARD .TREKT DETROIT 7. MICHIGAN D&"AIlT ... "HT 01' IHDuaTRIAL M&DICIH& AHD HYGIEHe William Cooling Case 1. M. 573 Thetford Industrial Clinic #764. Received from Paul Cartier, Quebec, Canada. Deceased 1949 at 63 years of age. Autopsy: Montrea.l General Hospital~ January 1949 Pa.thologist: J. Pritchard, M. D. "Extensive malignant me sothelioma of the right pleura with involvement of stump of right bronchus and extension to parietal pericardium. Associated Condition: Minimal healed pulmonary tuberculo,sis. Exposure: Treasurer of the Asbe sto s Corporation Ltd., Only office work from 1920 to 19ri9. Reference: Mesothelioma of the pleura. , i ... - -.-. ,' - 1"'-573 Ails- 11.1146 .