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literature upon radium shows a tendency toward localization of
radium in bone and we have cited instances of jaw necrosis
following the use of radium. These points do not seem to me
to deal with anything except observed fact. Conditions in
your plant at Orange sub ject workers to radium exposure beyond
the degree permitted in first-rate institutes handling radium
for therapeutic purposes. The recommendations we have made
are designed to bring the practice in your plant into accord
with current usage in handling radium products and gauging
their effects on human beings. We do not believe zinc to have
any part in the trouble which has developed except in so far
as it may act as a passive carrier of radium. It will, however,
be apparent that most of the strictures suggested would result
in elimination or reduction of zinc sulphide absorption so that
the idea of damage from this source is cared for as a sort of
by-product.
I trust this will make our position clear and that you
will send me Mr. Viedt's report since I imagine you must have
new facts in your hands and in these we shall be most interested.
Very sincerely yours,
bill Driver
Cecil K. Drinker, M.D.
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