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The 1938 annual report of the Saranac Laboratory for the Study of Tuberculosis, for the year ending September 30, 1938: the report of its director, Dr. Leroy Gardner, a financial statement listing contributors, and reprints of scientific papers on dust and lung disease by Gardner, Arthur J. Vorwald and others. On page 9 Gardner reports that animals breathing very finely ground asbestos for about two years showed "practically no fibrosis," while an earlier experiment with long-fibre asbestos had produced fibrosis in 15 months, and he concludes that long, stiff asbestos fibres were "mechanically irritating to the lungs."
- Author
- Leroy U. Gardner
- Published by
- Saranac Laboratory
- Date
- 1938
- Library no.
- ACL Doc 24191 · asbestosclaims.law/library/24191
- Rights
- Pages 1-17 only: the Saranac Laboratory's Report of the Director and Financial Report for the year ending September 30, 1938, published without notice (none on the cover, title page, verso or last page), so in the public domain. Pages 18-68 are reprints of Gardner's journal papers, including AIME Technical Publication 953 and "Etiology of Pneumoconiosis" from JAMA (November 26, 1938, "Copyright, 1938, by American Medical Association"; JAMA contributions were renewed by their authors from 1932); they are not posted.
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What it shows
The asbestos experiments mentioned here were the ones funded by J-M, Raybestos-Manhattan and other companies under their 1936 agreement with Gardner (the agreement). In May 1939 Vandiver Brown drew Sumner Simpson's attention to "the references to Asbestosis on Page 9 of the 'Report of the Director'" and to Gardner's reprinted papers, and asked whether Gardner's use of the material was proper under that agreement (Brown's letter). The contents also list a paper by Vorwald and John W. Karr, "Pneumoconiosis and Pulmonary Carcinoma."
In Johns-Manville's chronology
Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows:
Saranac Laboratories Report of Director Dr. Gardner, Financial Report, and Reprint of Scientific Papers by Dr. Gardner, Vorwald, Karr, Cummings, and Dalmant.
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- Chapter 2 (Cancer), p. 49 (as part of a larger document)
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Leroy U. Gardner. “Saranac Laboratory, Report of the Director and Financial Report for 1938, with Reprints.” 1938. Saranac Laboratory. AsbestosClaims.Law Library, ACL Doc 24191. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/24191.
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