Lois Gaul's Manville Memo on Excerpta Medica's Public Health Abstracts, 1955–1966 (1988)

An eleven-page Manville memo to file of September 15, 1988, from Lois Gaul. She reported that she had gone through volumes 1 to 12 (1955 to 1966) of Excerpta Medica's public health section at the C.U. Medical Library "for the 1940-1965 chronology of asbestos-related medical/scientific articles," and listed 131 abstracts and references "of interest." The list gives author, title and journal for each item and adds no comment.

What it shows

The list runs from 1954 papers on mineral dust in the lungs to the mid-1960s. It includes reports of lung cancer with asbestosis from Germany, Italy and the United States, J. C. Wagner's 1960 paper on mesothelioma in South Africa's North Western Cape Province, W. T. Marr's 1964 paper on asbestos exposure during naval ship overhaul, Irving Selikoff's 1964 and 1965 papers, and many papers from the 1965 volume of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences devoted to asbestos. It shows how much of the world's asbestos literature from those years a single abstracting journal carried.