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FILE NAME: General Refractories Company (GRC) DATE: 1937 DOC#: GRC020 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Trade Publication Reference Documenting Knowledge of Asbestosis Knowledge of Asbestosis Date: 1 9 3 7 Source: Abtract o f "Clinical aspects, diagnosis, and treatment o fpneumonoconiosis" by W. Irving Clark, in Ceramic Abstracts Compiled by The American Ceramic Society, Vol. 16, No. 5 Quote: "The two pneumonoconioses which produce disability are silicosis and asbestosis...[The pathology] of asbestosis is characterized by an interstitial fibrosis involving the lower half o f both lungs...The treatment of pneumonoconiosis is preventive and symptomatic. The co u rse... of asbestosis is slow but eventually leads to incapacity due either to the disease itself or to a complication..." [emphasis added]