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WASHINGTON DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
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BEFORE ME, the undersigned Notary Public, personally came and appeared MICHAEL RHODE, a person of the full age of majority, being of sound mind and body, who, after being first duly sworn by me, did depose and say:
I, MICHAEL RHODE, am an employee of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, D.C. I am custodian of the original archives of Dr. Arthur J. Vorwald.
Pages 1 through j/ 1L attached hereto are true, correct and authentic copies of documents from Dr. Arthur Vorwald's archives. The pages attached are _________Revised version of ASBESTOSIS Experimental Studies bv The Saranac Laboratory, Report to the Johns-Manville Corporation, dated January 31. 1949
Dr. Vorwald was the Director of the Saranac Laboratory of the Trudeau Institute. Upon his death, Dr. Vorwald's archives were donated to the Armed Forces Institute of pathology by his widow.
Dr. Vorwald's archives are in such condition as to raise no suspicion concerning their authenticity; they were received by the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology from Dr. Vorwald's widow after
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Dr. Vorwald's death; they are presently on file as authorized by
law in the National Museum of Health & Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Building 54, Walter Reed Army Medical
Center, Washington, D.C. 20306-6000; and the archives have been in
existence for 20 (twenty) or more years.
SWORN TO AND SUBSCRIBED before me, the undersigned Notary Public, on this the ^ 7 day of April, 1992.
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Introduction Asbestos Minerals
I. ABSTRACT
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5. Experimental Methods
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I * Peculiar Characteristics of Asbestos 8. Rate of Tissue Reaction to Asbestos Fibers
9. Asoestosis Bodies
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13. Dust Composition
llu Dust Concentration
1?. Reaction in Animals
16. Guinea Figs 17. Rate and Type of Reaction 18. Progression
19. Infection. Coincident rrith Dust Inhalation
.20 Infection after Dust Inhalation
.21 Asbestosis Bodies
.22 Rabbits
23. Rats
2h. Summary and Interpretation