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Speaker 1: Happy Saturday. Dr Alice Hamilton's is going to come up

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Speaker 1: in one of our forthcoming episodes, along with her groundbreaking

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Speaker 1: work in the field of occupational medicine, specifically the dangers

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Speaker 1: of workplace and environmental exposures to lead. So we are

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Speaker 1: bringing our episode on her out as Today's Saturday Classic.

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Speaker 1: This originally came out on May six, so enjoy. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of

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Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. Hello, and welcome to the podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: Holly Fry and I'm Tracy be Wilson and Tracy. Today's

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Speaker 1: episode is going to delve into the start of the

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Speaker 1: study of occupational disease and the woman behind that beginning.

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Speaker 1: That's an important field, it is, and it's one of

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Speaker 1: those interesting things that we see is so important today

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Speaker 1: but a hundred years ago not so much. Well. Occupational

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Speaker 1: health has also been affecting people for much, much, much

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Speaker 1: longer than it has existed as a field. Like yes,

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Speaker 1: and it is one of those things that even while

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Speaker 1: I was researching this episode, I found myself going, why

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Speaker 1: why didn't anybody study this? There's pretty obvious cause and

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Speaker 1: effect for some of this stuff. One, yeah, but a

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Speaker 1: number of previous episode topics are going to get mentioned

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Speaker 1: Dr Alice Hamilton's was a trailblazer in science and medicine

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Speaker 1: and she dedicated her life to improving the workplace standards

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Speaker 1: ardly from working with toxic chemicals. And this episode was

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Speaker 1: requested by our listener Emily, who actually sent us a

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Speaker 1: book to kickstart research, which is very kind and it's

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Speaker 1: actually a really fun book, So thank you, Emily. So

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Speaker 1: on February sixty nine. Alice Hamilton's was born in New

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Speaker 1: York City. Her parents were Montgomery Hamilton's and Gertrude Pond.

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Speaker 1: The family had really strong roots in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

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Speaker 1: That was where her grandfather had been a land speculator

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Speaker 1: like almost any piece of property you stand on in

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Speaker 1: in terms of ownership. Alice was born in New York

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Speaker 1: because her mother, Gertrude, had wanted to go to have

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Speaker 1: her mother went back home to Fort Wayne to live

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Speaker 1: family called Old House. And the Old House itself had

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Speaker 1: where Alice's uncle lived. The one thing that Alice saw

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