1907 MURRAY, Hubert Montague (1855 – 1907)

In Report of the Departmental Committee on Compensation for Industrial Diseases. Cd. 3495 and 3496.

The first reported case of asbestosis was observed by Murray at Charing Cross Hospital, London, in 1899 and reported to the Committee (Report, p. 14: Minutes of Evidence, p. 127) in 1907.

GMN 2130 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2665

1928 SEILER, Henry Edmund (1899 – 1978)

A case of pneumoconiosis. Result of the inhalation of asbestos dust.

Seiler established an unequivocal relationship between asbestos and pulmonary fibrosis.

GMN 2134.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2671

1936 DRINKER, Philip (1894 – 1972); HATCH, Theodore

Industrial dust: Hygienic significance, measurement and control.

Includes information on asbestosis.

GMN 11821 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14023