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    "ocrText": "September 26th, 1932.\nDr. Herman Schlundt,\nUniversity of Missouri,\nColumbai, Mo.\nDear Dr. Schlundt:\nDr. Flinn returned from his trip Abroad last week, and\nI have had 8. lengthy conversation with him over the 'phone, and feel that\nyou and probably Dean Robbins will be quite interested in Dr. Flinn's\nreaction to the use of radon.\nFirst let me say that Dr. Flinn seemed to be very pleased\nwith the trip he had, and that he visited institutions in Germany,\nSwitzerland, Czecho-Slovakia and France, and that in all cases he found that\nthey were using radon as one of their standard types of treatment for\ncertain conditions. He was most favorably imp essed by the results which\nthey were obtaining, and seems to feel that there are undoubtedly certain\nconditions which respond to this treatment as administered Abroad.\nTheir general technique is quite diffe. ent than that\nwhich has been employed in this country, in that they give a daily dosage\nof anywhere from 6000 to 10000 Mache Units in & minimum quantity of water\napproximately 200 CC. They continue this treatment for a period of 6 to 8\nweeks, and then stop for 3 to 6 months. If the condition of the patient.\nindicates a repitition of the radon treatment it is again begun for 6 to\n8 weeks. They have applied this type of treatment largely to Arthritis\npatients, and it is in this field which they are obtaining the best results.\nThe thing that seemed to impress Dr. Flinn was the fact\nthat all institutions which he visited were using this type of treatment,\nand in all cases their têchnique seemed to be the same - such technique\nhaving been apparently developed independently of one another.\nI understand that Dr. Flinn is to write an article for the\nAmerican Journal of Roentgenology and Radium Therapy, on his visit Abroad,\nthis article to appear in the near future.\nI have also heard a rumor to the effect that there is to\nbe started in the middle west, a radium emanatorium, where radium will be\nemployed quite generally in the treatment of certain conditions, and that\nDr. Rollin H. Stevens of Detroit, of whom I spoke to you about, is to be\nassociated with this emanatorium. The Emanatorium is to be ably financed\nby a group of men, with a competent medical staff. I am sorry that I do\nnot have more details regarding this proposition, but off-hand it sounds\nvery much like the sort of plan which I would like to have seen carried\non at the University of Missouri.\nWith kind regards, I am\nSincerely yours,\nVice President.\nHHBarker: :RH"
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