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1 lung cancer showed an epidemiologic relationship Page 1729 2 between asbestos and lung cancer, and there are many, 3 many other cases after that. 4 Q How about the disease known as diffuse 5 malignant mesothelioma, when was that, from your 6 review of the literature, first reported? 7 A The best study or best report initially was 8 by Wedler, and many people don't realize that. Wedler 9 had a beautiful description on mesothelioma, in 1943 10 in that paper, that he reported on the person who had 11 the disease asbestosis. 12 If you look at the Merewether report in 13 1949, he referred to cases of tumors of the lining of 14 the lung; and even though he did not call them 15 mesothelioma, I suspect that those were. 16 The article or the publication that Ithink 17 is most well-known and perhaps the most famous with 18 relating mesothelioma to asbestos was published by 19 Wagner, Sleggs and Marchand in South Africa in 1960 in 20 a journal called The British Journal of Industrial 21 Medicine. And in that report, they had 33 cases of