Holleb and Angrist, "Bronchiogenic Carcinoma in Association with Pulmonary Asbestosis" (1942)

A cover sheet and nine-page article from the Department of Pathology, Queens General Hospital, Jamaica, New York, published in the American Journal of Pathology in 1942. Holleb and Angrist reported two men who had covered steam and water pipes with asbestos for about 25 years and died of lung cancer with pulmonary asbestosis, bringing the cases in the literature to ten. The first said "many of his co-workers had died of 'silicosis'"; the second's son had quit after a year because the air was "too dusty."

What it shows

By 1942 a medical journal had reported lung cancer with asbestosis in two pipe coverers, both employed by makers of asbestos products, and tabulated all ten known cases. The authors noted that a German researcher had concluded that lung cancer was an occupational disease of asbestos workers, while presenting their table as a summary rather than proof. The 1951 report from the same hospital is Motley document 150; an abstract of this article is Motley document 120.

In Johns-Manville's index

Johns-Manville's legal department indexed the Motley 1,000 in 1984. Its index describes this document as follows:

Article entitled "Bronchiogenic Carcinoma in Association with Pulmonary Asbestosis: Report of Two Cases," authored by H.B. Holleb and A. Angrist, published in the American Journal of Pathology, 1942. Both cases involve pipecoverers.

Related documents

• Stoll, Bass and Angrist, -Asbestosis Associated with Bronchogenic Carcinoma- (1951)
• Herbert B. Holleb and Alfred Angrist, -Bronchogenic Carcinoma in Association with Pulmonary Asbestosis- (1942)

About this copy

This is document 151 of the Motley 1,000, from the set the Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust's records facility certified as true copies, pages CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-001188 to CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-001197.