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     2   Q.   The one you cite as Footnote 91?
     3        A.  Well, I cannot give you an answer to that because it
     4        is possible I have may have been working from the
     5        abstract.
     6
     7   Q.   From?
     8        A.  From the abstract.
     9
    10   Q.   I will show it to you, if I may.  You will need an orange
    11        volume numbered IV which you will find, Mr. Cox, in the
    12        shelf behind you, if you please.  It is in two sections.
    13        I ask you to turn to the second section where are to be
    14        found the references made by the Plaintiff's cancer
    15        expert, Dr. Sidney Arnott.  Have you found that second
    16        section which runs from 1 to 26 the first and to 13?
    17        A.  No.  The entire second section seems to be missing.
    18
    19   Q.   Try No. 3 within that second section, Mr. Cox, you should
    20        find a divider 3 with a page number at the top?
    21        A.  371.
    22
    23   Q.   Just have a look at that first page headed:  "Relation of
    24        Meat, Fat, And Fibre Intake to the Risk of Colon Cancer in
    25        a Prospective Study among Women, Walter C. Willett and
    26        others, December 13th 1990.  Ask me whether you can
    27        confirm that that is the paper referred to in your book as
    28        footnote 91?  Do you see, it comes from the New England
    29        Journal of Medicine?
    30        A.  It appears to be the same one.
    31
    32   Q.   It does, does it?  It is the same date, the same journal,
    33        the same subject matter.  You note the conclusions at the
    34        top of the abstract:  "These prospective data provide
    35        evidence for the hypothesis that a high intake of animal
    36        fat increases the risk of colon cancer, and they support
    37        existing recommendations to substitute fish and chicken
    38        for meat high-in-fat".
    39
    40   MS. STEEL:   Perhaps the witness could be given time to read
    41        the whole of the abstract.
    42
    43   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
    44        A.  Could you tell me what the question is?
    45
    46   MR. RAMPTON:  You will see in a minute what the question is.
    47        Now, please, turn to the last page of the text of this
    48        paper immediately above the references.  I cannot give you
    49        a page, No. 377.
    50        A.  Yes. 
    51 
    52   Q.   Then, please, look at the first complete paragraph which 
    53        I shall now read:  "The absence of a positive association
    54        between dietary fat and breast cancer in this same cohort
    55        has been questioned"?
    56        A.  Sorry, can you direct me, please?
    57
    58   Q.   The last page of text of this paper which in your copy
    59        will be stamped 377?
    60        A.  Right.

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