The award for permanent total disability caused by occupational silicosis was predicated upon the testimony of the board's expert consultant on dust diseases that disability was due to silicosis, emphysema and chronic bronchitis, all of which he related to the occupation, and to arteriosclerotic heart disease and arteriosclerosis obliterans of both legs. Although the pulmonary disease was the "major disability", it alone was not totally disabling, but it did, in the doctor...
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