Letter from Dr. Wallace Graham to Charles Geschickter, with Attached Letter from Brigadier General Sam Seeley to Dr. Wallace Graham

3 July 1954 Charles F. Geschickter, M.D. 1834 Connecticut Avenue, N. W. Washington 9, D. C. Dear Charlie: I am using the M33 and the M48 religiously; however, my examination yesterday of Manuel Lessner revealed another subclivicular node, and his temperature is now running approximately 100 to 100.4 daily. His general condition is quite good; he is very active; and it seems as if he feels better, generally, when he is playing golf or acti- vely participating in some endeavor. I have been giving him 1-1/2 cc's daily of the M33, deep intramuscularly. The injection is given every other day. I do not know how the solution is working on other cases. I am giving it to a gentlemen with carcinoma of the lung; however, he has developed a superior vena cava syndrome and I was forced to use nitrogen mustard, which relieved him to a minor extent. I am using the M33 on carcinoma of the breast, and so far have seen no other nodules appear. As you may have read about ex-President Truman, I took a gangrenous gall bladder and an appendix from him, and his post-operative course was excellent until the fourth p.o. day, at which time he was given some Terramycin, and he had a tremendous hypersensitivity reaction. I used Ilo- tycine to thwart some of the bacterial invasion of those bacteria that weren't killed by the Terramycin. However, the entire condition is a most severe gastro-enteritis from the mouth to the anus. At the present time, he is still loosing considerable fluid and green bile from the intentine. The erythema has gone, and we are keeping up the electrolytic balance, and his fluid levels to nor- mal, but it is almost beyond me to know how to stop this extreme loss of fluid from the bowel. His abdomen is soft; his wounds are well healed; the dainnage is out; he has no complaints except the extreme is 4