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AFFIDAVIT OF DR. HERBERT STOKINGER STATE OF OHIO COUNTY OF SS. I, DR. HERBERT STOKINGER, being first duly sworn on oath, deposes and says: 1. I am the author of the attached letter. Exhibit "A", which is dated January 20, 1958 from myself to Dr. Daniel C. Braun, Medical Director, Industrial Hygiene Foundation of America, Inc., Mellon Institute, 4400 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 2. I was at the time Acting Editor, AMA Archives of Industrial Health, and the letter was typed on my letterhead at the Archives of Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Medicine and sent to Dr. Braun. Further Affiant sayeth naught. DR. HERBERT STOKINGER Subscribed and sworn to before me this day of May, 1992. My commission expires 4186a:106 t Qm*> % (* 99 Ifll't f*f. *.* III. liitavtf t #** Archives of Industrial Hygiene ltd Occupational Medicine r"H' Offmigff Cm |fcfvf. ges dmutHif Uiii, C*u. '* ClO#<w*t r i-, 1014 S. Dreedivey, Cincinnati 2, Okie, Jaauaiy 20, 1953 Dr* Denial C. Braun ilsdieal Director Industrial Hygiene Foundation of Aaerlca, Xae. Halloo Institute, 1400 Fifth Avenua Pittsburgh 13, ftnnsylvanit Dssr Dr Bream Both Or* Prtnoi and I, having miswed your paper, "to Epidosiologlcal Study of Lung Cancer in Asbestos Minors* art pissod to accept it for publication in ths ilU Archival of Industrial gsslth. Vto find ths rsport not only of axeaptlonal intarsst but a model of tba epidesiolegla sethod in illseases of ths lung* Our only erlticis* was that in pursuing ths epideslelogio dstsil ths pspsr bsesos s trifle long and ana got ths iapressicn toward ths sad that on* had road this before. I, ^rsolf, was particularly pleased to Isara ths sain eonelusion of tho paper was against tha association of lung eancsr with asbostosls, for X had coos to a ainilar conclusion on o^> wiously far lass information but was afraid to say to for this raasen. X as sneloslng a review which contains a few ssntaneos that X have narked la this connection that appears in the Annual Review ef Medicine, Voluae 7, 1956. You will recall at this tins evidence greatly farorod tha poaitivw correlation of lung cancer on exposure to asbestos. Sincerely yours, &closure Herbert 3toj$.inger,.fto-D- ' Acting Editor, AUA Archivea of Industrial Health