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May 27th, 1932.
Dr. James Ewing
Department of Pathology
Cornell University Medical College
lst Avenue and 28th Street
New York City
Dear Dr. Ewing:
I have before me a letter from Mr. Barker stat-
ing that he has talked to you about our research program on
Radium and its Biological Applications. In writing to Mr.
Barker I made no attempt to outline the experimentel work
which we have under way and for the expansion of which we are
seeking support from the Josiah Macey Junior Foundation. It
is gratifying to us to hear that you stand ready to help us
in making our appeal. We hope that the following outline of
experimental work in progress hore at the University of Mis-
souri will offer cunvincing evidence that our program morits
your full endorsement.
1. The experimentol Thork on the Detection and
Elimination of Radium in Living Persons, published in the
Journal of Reentgenology and Radium Tharapy is being continued.
In cooperation with your Commission, Dr. Craver and I have
conducted a series of, experiments on four of the girls having
radium poisoning to asportain whether the rate of elimination
of radium can be greatly increased by the administration of
parathormone and viosterol as reported by Flinn and Seidlin.
While these investigators report an apparent elimination of
radium of 50 per cent, our experiments resulted in showing
practically no increase in the rate of elimination. These re-
sults will be ready for publication as soon as we can complete
a final series of neasurements on the radium still retained by
the subjects under experiment.
To grin further knowledge on the retention and
elimination of radium we have this year conducted experiments
on animals. Two graduate students, Horace Thomas and Frank
Bruner, working jointly with Dean Allen of the Medical School
and myself, have extended the scope of the experiment by a
study of the histologioal and pathological effects produced
when radium is administered to rats. Under separate cover we
are mailing you a copy of the report on this work organized in
the form of a thesis subnitted for the degree of Master of
Arts, under the title, Chronic Radium Poisoning in Rats.
To carry forward this promising line of investi-
gation we propose to extend experiments of this kind to larger
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