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    "ocrText": "ur. funny A\n37. I was brought into the picture in March 1925, by Dr. Gilbert Thompson\n38. Statement denied.\nI was in Boston,Harvard University, April 1925, to\ndisauss with Dr. Edsal the Tetra-Ethyl lead situation. Dr. Drinker was brought\ninto the conversation, and after the lead situation had been cleared up I told\nDr. Drinker that I was going to study the radium question and asked him what his\nfeeling was on the subject, and what his findings had been.\nThere was just a\ngeneral discussion at that time.\nWash.D.C\nIn May 1925 at the head-quarters of the U. S. Public Health Service at a\nconference called by the Surgeon General to discuss the hazards of Tetra-Ethyl\nLead, Dr. Drinker asked me how I was getting along with my radium work, and suggested\nto me that I should get hold of his report to the U.S.Radium Corp., and told me OI\nhis experience with the .J. State Labor Depart. and claimed that the Company had\nnot given the Department the full details of this report, and he was very much\nafraid thay would do the same thing with me, and suggested when I received the report\nfrom the U. S. Radium Corp., that I send the report on to him an d he would tell\nme whether it was the complete report or not.\nOn receipt of this report some-\ntirje in May I wrote a letter which is quoted here (quote).\nOn the steps of\nthe Surgeon General's building office Dr. Drinker told me that he wanted to publish\nhis findings, and asked me what I thought about it, and I said that if he thought\nthe Company was crooked, and I said that I certainly would take int up with the\nCompany, and publish it in spite of them if he thought there was crookedness - but\nthat he would have to use his own judgment in the matter, that I did'nt think a\nmedical man had any right to supress a situation even if he had to mention names.\nBetween the conference in Washington and January 8,1926 I saw >Dr. Drinker severà\ntimes and each time the radium question was discussed. I don't know just exactly\nthe dates it was discussed as I was up and back to Harvard several times.\nThe men I have talked this over with are - Dr. W. S. Bean,Surgeon U.S.\nPublic Health service. Dr. Frank Pedley. Dr. Arthur Pope and Dr. Pettit of\nOttewa.\nWhen the Dunn case was sent in it was sent over to the hospital for regular A\ndiagnosis of the case. Any case that looked suspicious of any Case that Dr .Flinn\nhad any direct connection with were handled in conjunction with the Presbyterian,\nand Roosevelt and Waterbury Hospitals, in conjunction with the regular hospital staff.\n41. When Miss Wiley asked permission to come over and see me at my office at the\nbuilding, at the suggestion of Dr. Alice Hamilton, I discussed freely with her my\nfindings up to date. She said that she wished that I would examine some of the\nOrange girls, and said that she had the list of seven or eight girls whose addresses\nshe would send and would try to persuade them to have an interview. She mentioned\nMiss Schaub in particular, stating that Miss Schaub's own Doctor said that there was\nnothing wrong with her whatever, that she had been examined by several neurologists\nand that all said that she was all right, but said they thought she was neurotic, and\nprobably had some stomach trouble. Miss Wiley said that if I would talk with her\nand tell her of my findings it might relieve her mind and make her optomistic as to\nher general conditions.\nI received a letter from Miss Wiley giving me Miss Schaub\n(\naddress, saying that she could not find the other addressed she promised me, and\nsuggesting that I write to Miss Schaub. I received a letter from Miss Schaub in\nresponse to my letter, saying that she was topill to leave her home and that if I\nwas interested enought in her case to come down to her homethat she would let me\nsee her.\nI ignored her letter completely, becaune I thought that if she was not\nwilling to gúme to my home to see me or the University for examination she was not\nworth bothering about, especially after Miss Willey's statement.\nOne Sunday\nafter in the next spring of 1926, I received a 'phone call from Mis S Schaub introducing\nhereself, because I did not remember her name at the time, and asking if she could\ncome to the house to takk with me for a few minutes. I told her to come on up. She\narrived at the house shortly afterwards with a friend, and after the usual greetings\nshe told me that she had a tooth in her head that was bothering her and wanted to\nknow what my advice was about having it taken out. I told her that the best thing\nshe could do would be to go to a good dentist, explain to the man where she had worked"
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