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This article talks about asbestos being identified as carcinogenic in the 1920's, but the ancient Greeks knew not to buy slaves from the asbestos mines.
by chippy1337 12y ago
This article talks about asbestos being identified as carcinogenic in the 1920's, but the ancient Greeks knew not to buy slaves from the asbestos mines.
- SixSigma 12y agoBut I bet they didn't diagnose it as "cancer", just "will die soon"
- vidarh 12y agoAre you sure? The word cancer comes from Greek - Hippocrates named it Karkinos, which was translated into the latin cancer a few hundred years later. The name explicitly comes from the appearance of a cancerous tumour.