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1 A Industrial medicine, in 1942. Page 2762 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