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DR. W. GILMAN THOMPSON
17 WEST 53RD Street, NEW YORK
TELEPHONE CIRCLE 6490
CONSULTATION HOURS: 9-11
AND BY APPOINTMENT
March 31, 1925
Dear Mr. Roeder:
I am getting some interesting information regarding the
problem you presented to me. I have consulted with three of our
most prominent dental surgeons and a number of pathologists and
others. All are agreed in the importance of conducting some
animal experiments with radium paste applied to the gums. If
you will do this, Professor Flinn, I find, would undertake the work.
He is connected with the Columbia University Industrial Hygiene
Department and is a very able man.
I wish you would furnish me with the following facts:
1. How long was Miss x,( I do not know her name) who is
suing you, employed?
2. When did her symptoms begin?
3. How long were the one hundred and fifty girls employed
who developed no symptoms?
4. How nearly were the five cases of alleged poisoning
connected in point of time?
5. Was there any change whatever in the preparation used
or the mode of making it during the period the five girls were at
work?
6. With regard to Miss X, it would be desirable to find
whether she had poor teeth before commencing work, whether she had
received dental treatment before commencing work, and what mouth
wash she used, if any, particularly as to hydrogen peroxide. The
latter in contact with pus in a tooth abscess forms frothy bubbles
which sometimes penetrate the neighboring blood vessels and plug
them up or stretch them and force the pus germs into the surround-
ing tissues.
I find that several authors make statements regarding the
ill effects of radium on bone tissues. Thus Heinecke says that,
"Certain bone marrow cells are highly sensitive to radium", and
that their nuclei disintegrated and Anton Thies found after ex-
perimental application of radium that the bone marrow became packed
with red blood cells and that small hemorrhages in it were common.
Please also let me know how much radium was used and in
what form, and what additional precautions have been taken for the
girls now working.
On the other hand, there is plenty of evidence that osteomye-
litis may result at any time in those who have serious septic condi-
tions in the mouth from any cause.
I have not yet receivedthe histories which you agreed to
send me. I shall be able to give you a more formal report in a few
days.
Very truly yours,
WGT: BBC
W. Thompson
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