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1 saying latency, isn't it?
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2 A It is a cumulative dose effect or latency.
3 You can use various terms to describe it.
4 Q Cumulative dose. That is something that we 5 know about today in 1996. I am going to call it
6 latency, and I know you refer to it as cumulative
7 dose, correct?
8 A Yes.
9 Q I am sorry, cumulative dose. I will try to
10 write bigger. Thank you, Mr. McGowan.
11 We knew about that in 1930, too, didn't we?
12 A Not in the way we understand it now, but
13 there was a concept similarly.
14 Q Dr. Merewether in 1930 when he was writing 15 his article, he was talking about maturation of harm
16 and that is what he is talking about?
17 A Talking about a dose response. The
18 cumulative nature of the dose is what really snuck up
19 on medicine and science.
20 Q Dr. Merewether, when he wrote his article, 21 he also included discussions about dose and time,