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- Published on: 10 February 2006
- Published on: 10 February 2006Pneumoconiosis after cericite inhalationShow More
Dear Editor,
This article recalls a controversy of the early 1930s, when the authority of no less a genius than Professor JS Haldane was challenged on behalf of South Wales coalminers by a mining mineralogist W. R. Jones, who as a consequence was to acquire the soubriquet "Sericite". [1]
Their disease was considered by Haldane not to be attributable to the dust to which they were exposed, as its level of c...
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