Lois Gaul's Manville Memo on H. E. Mock's Industrial Medicine and Surgery (1986)

A one-page Manville internal memo to file of November 11, 1986, from Lois Gaul, on H. E. Mock's Industrial Medicine and Surgery (W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia, 1920), which she had borrowed from the University of Northern Colorado. She reports that "there is no mention of asbestos hazards," though there is "some discussion of dust in general," a chapter on industrial hygiene and production during World War I, and a bibliography of federal and state legislation on industrial medicine from 1916 to 1920.

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.