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the matters that I made notes about. I don't want to be I don't want to appear to be -I'm not, but I don't want to appear to be pedantic about this.
In the first place,-I would like to emphasize that it has been - or give further emphasis to the fact than we are discussing a subject about which our knowledge is most imperfect. Now, does anybody disagree with that? Definitions at their best are imperfect, so we have a very complicated situation to try to forsulate a definition.
Then I'd like to say a word in defense of Doctor Zenker. So many people used the word 'pneumoconiosis' and refer to Zenker as having originated it. I'd like tocall j your attention, if you don't know it, to the fact that Doc-'
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tor Zenker was a pathologist and he was not necessarily in-; troduclng a term. If you will read his paper, you will find
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title of his paper was "The Pulmonary Diseases Due to In- . halation of Dust", and he said rather than to use this long- winded expression, I will simply use the word 'pneumoccnlo-i sis', which means the same thing. That's the way the Iree<! say it, and I won't go into the Greek about it; you can fine, some Greek scholar for that, but that's the dope.
J jNow, he was talking about an anatomical disease,
not clinical disease. All of you are talking about clinical
disease. Don't, then, blame it on Zenker. If he were * ere
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