Letters Sent to Mr. Roeder [A.Roeder], October 13, 1925

Oct. 13, 1925 Mr. Roeder COPY Dear Mx. Roeder: It is my opinion that the process we now use for the extraction of radium, etc. is fer more practical than the one covered by the patent of Mr. Williams. I attended the meeting of the New York Pathological Society held on Thursday last and heard Dr. Martland's talk relative to #radium necrosis" etc. He must be given credit for having done a good deal of work on the Mallifer, Carlough, and one other case. The mass of data which he presented together with his extremely self confident manner relative to his work, could not help but produce a rather sympathetic attitude on the average milence. However, it rather seems to ma that he cannot be given credit for attacking the problem from an unbiased stande point. A good many of his conclusions he apparently drew before the work had progressed far, and consequently the data found has been whipped into such shape as to substantiate his conclusions. Port of the technical data presented should certainly be backed up by a little more complete data and careful statement of the facts. It occurs to me that there is a possibility that we might establish that intravenous injections were made in the Mallifer case, provided we are ever successful in obtaining specimens of her organs, which we have been repeatedly promised, but don't obtain. Should the examination of her organs show the only radio-active material present to be radium, it would certainly be to our advantage. or course if mesothorium was used intravenously the test would have no significance. Very truly yours, H. H. Barker.