A Case of Pneumoconiosis: Result of the Inhalation of Asbestos Dust

Our plain-English summary of A Case of Pneumoconiosis: Result of the Inhalation of Asbestos Dust, by H. E. Seiler (1928).

The study

• Author: H. E. Seiler
• Published: British Medical Journal 2:982 (December 1, 1928)
• Type of article: Journal article
• Our copy: from Johns-Manville's own medical library, J-M no. 003107.

In plain English

The text supplied with this citation is not the article by W.B. Wood and D.S. Page published in Tubercle in 1929, so this record cannot summarize that study. The scanned pages appear to come from the British Medical Journal and contain several unrelated articles. These are the end of a report on cysticercosis, a case report by H.E. Seiler on a Glasgow asbestos worker, a note on treating spondylitis, two cases of syphilitic spondylitis, a 1931 report by H.E. Seiler and Mary D. Gilmour on what appears to be the same Glasgow worker after his death, and an article on x-ray diagnosis of intestinal obstruction. Wood and Page appear only in the 1931 article. It lists their Tubercle paper among its references and says they published the details of one case of asbestosis not complicated by pulmonary tuberculosis or other gross changes. Beyond that one secondhand mention, these pages do not describe Wood and Page's case or what they found. The clinical and pathological findings in these pages belong to the other authors and are not reported here. A copy of the Tubercle article itself is needed for a summary.

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