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1 A Industrial medicine, in 1942.
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2 Q Do you hold a Master's degree in public
3 health?
4 A Yes, sir.
5 Q Did you work for the Surgeon General of the
6 United States?
7 A Yes, sir.
8 Q As distinguished from clinical medicine or
9 hands-on doctoring, what kinds of medicine did you
10 practice?
11 A Public health is the specialty of industrial
12 medicine and industrial hygiene which, in contrast to
13 clinical medicine, which is focused on individuals,
14 the public health, and industrial medical aspects
15 focused on hundreds and thousands and eventually
16 millions of individuals, and in groups of all of those
17 individuals who are exposed to the microchemical
18 environment, the toxic dusts, fumes, vapors, mists and
19 gases in which they are exposed during the work
20 environment, in contrast to the microbiological
21 environment or causation of the disease that the