Lois Gaul's Manville Memo on Alice Hamilton's Industrial Poisons in the United States (1984)

A one-page Manville internal memo to file of October 22, 1984, from L. Gaul, noting a book she had looked at in the "Boston Collection" at C.U. Medical Library: Alice Hamilton's Industrial Poisons in the United States, published by Macmillan in 1925. She calls it "the classic text" and writes that it is "unrelated to asbestos," but that its introduction has "some interesting early observations on the role of the industrial physician and his responsibility to both workers and management."

What it shows

This is one of a series of short memos written at Manville in the mid-1980s, while the company was defending asbestos lawsuits, recording what early books and journals on industrial disease said, or did not say, about asbestos.