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December 22nd,1930. Dr. Herman Schlundt, University of Missouri, Columbia, No. Dear Dr. Schlundt: Your letter addressed to my home, giving some of the results reported to you by Dr. Flinn, has been received. Also I may say that Dr. Flinn sent me a copy of the letter which he addressed to you, but I must admit I had not read this letter over carefully up to the time of receiving your comments. Apparently Dr. Flinn has no data, or at least did not submit any data of the expired air tests con- ducted upon this girl prior to the administration of his treatment. We are, therefore, not in a position to compare the expired air test after treatment and before. However, from the gamma ray test of the patient it is quite reasonable to assume that the expired air would not disclose any such amount as 600 micrograms of radium being deposited in the system. Neither can I subscribe to the fact that by this treatment of any other treatment would it be possible to obtain such a large natural drift as Dr. Flinn has on a patient normally containing a reasonable amount, say 10 to 20 micrograms of radium element. I, therefore, feel that there must have been some error introduced into this work which Dr. Flinn has not taken into consideration. In his letter addressed to you he cites some three other cases, one of which only discloses any unreasonable amount of radon in the expired air, the other two cases are quite normal and apparently present a picture more or less as it should be. I may say that Dr. Craber had a conference with Dr. Flinn relative to his method of treating these patients, where he claims to have gotten such favorable results and Dr. Craver has on more than one occasion indicated that Dr. Flinn was very indéfinite regarding what was done, and apparently equally indefinite as to the results obtained. Dr. Craver seemed to feel that Dr. Flinn's work really lacked a true scientific aspect, and therefore, in the four cases now being treated he is carrying the thing out very methodic- ally and on a very much more systematic basis than Dr. Flinn