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    "ocrText": "the\n-2-\ntion was given him by Dr. Flinn.\nDr. Flinn feels very much embarrassed over the situation, but\nthere is little or nothing which he can do. It is a question in my\nmind\nwhether or not he acted wisely in advising the family physician of so\nsmall an amount, for after all there may be some question regarding the\npresence of this small amount of material, or that it is sufficient to ever\neffect the health of the children.\nYou probably have also noticed a squib in the press regarding the\nlecture which Dr. Flinn gave at Johns Hopkins, relative to results he has\nobtained with the use of Parathymol for the elimination of radium.\nDr. Flinn states that neither he nor Dr. Seidlin delivered any\nlecture or paper at Johns Hopkins and he is quite at a loss to understand\nthe origin of this newspaper article. ity reaction is that the article\nwas not published without some good foundation for it.\nI give you a few of these details so that you may know the situa-\ntion here, and the position which Dr. Flinn has taken regarding the matter.\nDr. Flinn has undoubtedly done a lot of very excellent work in this\nfield and will continue to contribute data of importance. I am, however,\nconvinced that he prefers to work more or less single handed in this direc-\ntion. In this connection I wish to present to you some reactions which I\nobtained from him in discussing the second paper on the \"Decay and Estima-\ntion of Radium in Living Persons\", etc.\nReferring to page two, paragraph 2: Dr. Flinn feels that to\nendeavor to deduce a co-efficient of eliminations is rather far fetched in\nthis type of work as he feels that the elimination of any notalic poison,\nwhich a person may be subject to varies materially from day to day for each\nindividual. He interprets your statement to mean that there is probably\na co-efficient of eliminations which any be applied to this type of vork.\nI did not so interpret your statement, but may be wrong. I think Dr. Flinn\nis correct in that there probably is no constant which we may apply to all\ncases. He seems to feel that the medical profession is not interested in\nco-efficients of elimination, but the simple fact of whether or not the\nelimination is increased or decreased or remains a constant. Secondly -\nhe points out that in cases of subject C and D the excreta collected in\nthese instances was not collected from a patient under nornal conditions,\nthat is these patients had been given specific treatment to try to increase\nthe rate of elimination. In one case I believe the patient had had\namonium chloride and in the other Parathymol.\nDr. Flinn points out that from the subject matter of this paper one\nwould be led to believe that the excreta of these subjects was collected\nunder normal conditions. He further raised the question of whether or not\nwe should publish the paper at all. Why he assumes this attitude I am unable\nto understand, and he gave no definite reason. He did not raise the point\nas to his not having had anything to do with the Fryer or Hussman cases, as\na reason for his not desiring to be associated with the work. I\nam\nwondering\nwhether or not he does not feel that the data with regard to subjects C & D\nare rather questionable to incorporate in the paper. Upon such an assump-\ntion my suggestion would be that we drop this part of the paper as well as\nDr. Flinnds co-authorship, and proceed with the publication under lines we"
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