Oasys joins elite company in the Osler historical library

The fifth Jack Pepys symposium on occupational asthma took place in McGill University Montreal. We visited the Osler library where there was an exhtion of texts related to occupational lung disease. We were priviledged that the first discription of the method developed into Oasys was exhibited in a case with illustrious company including Ramazzini and Alice Hamilton

The first paper describing what would become Oasys in workers with isocyanate asthma.

Margaraet Becklake and Andre Cartier

 

References

	Burge PS, O'Brien IM, Harries MG, Peak flow rate records in the diagnosis of occupational asthma due to isocyanates, Thorax, 1979;34:317-323,

	Hamilton A, Exploring the dangerous trades, Pub Little Brown and Co, Boston, 1943;143:1-468,

	Ramazzini B, Diseases of dressers of flax and hemp and carders of silk rolls, De morbus artificum diatriba, 1713;Tr Wilmer:-,

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