Letters Sent to Wade Wright, July 8, 1925

July 8th, 1925. Dr. Wade Wright, Assistant Medical Director In Charge of Industrial Hygione, Netropoliten Life Insurance Co., Now York Oity. My dear Dr. Wright: Your letter of June 29th addressed to Mr. Viedt at our plant in Orange, has been referred to me. I do not believe we have available at the present time any information along the lines that would be helpful to you. of the large number of Doctors handling Radium and with whom we are acquainted, M cannot recall any who have been inadversely affected through the use of this Element. You are porsibly familiar with a papez published by Dr. George Stuart Willis in the American Medical Association Journal about two years ago. In this he reported a serious condition that developed in either one or both of his hands and as I recall finally resulted in the amputation of a thunb. Dr. Willis was a Radiom thorapist handling a large amount of work but I believe his final diagnosis of his ow case was a result fxom his earlier work with X-Ray. Quite a bit has been published regarding Roentgen Ulcers but no report of a simi- lar condition esseed by Radium has appeared so fax as I Some time ago the press was full of another martyr to science in France. I took occasion at the time to write to Dr. Regend of the Radiam Institute to Anquiro whother the trouble was emsed. by Radium, as reported, and he replied that it was a Roentgen condition. It would be most interesting to establish what the hasard is, if any, and during the courso of the next few months I will endeavor to locate some data for you. Yours truly, President.