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1 '30s, that asbestos can cause disease; is that Page 3370 2 correct? 3 A Yes. The first epidemiologic studies were 4 done in the '30s, and even from the first they were 5 certainly convincing that asbestos exposure in high 6 doses could cause a diffuse fibrotic lung disease 7 called asbestosis. 8 Q Why don't we go back in time and bring us 9 forward from that time period, and just explain 10 briefly about these studies and what they showed and 11 what science and medicine did as a result of these 12 studies? 13 A The first case report in the medical 14 literature appeared in 1924 when an English physician 15 named Cooke described a young woman who died of 16 diffuse lung scarring, pulmonary fibrosis as we call 17 it medically, who had worked in an asbestos 18 manufacturing plant. 19 He rereported the same case in 1927 along 20 with a companion article by a pathologist describing 21 the findings in the lungs of diffuse scarring and also