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    "ocrText": "SEP 17'1976\nCohmbia University\nCollege of Physicians and Surgeons\nEPIDEMIOLOGY\n437 WEST 59TH STREET, NEW YORK\nINDUSTRIAL HYGIENE\nPUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION\nINSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH\nSANITARY SCIENCE\nSept I6 1926\nMr Roeder\nUnited States\nUnited States Radium Corporation,\nRadium Corporation\nNew York City, N.Y.\nDear Mr Roder:\nI am wondering if your crowd have given up all idea of giving me a lump\nsum for further radium reaearch? I am planning my work for the coming year and if\nyou have decided that you are not going to do anything I will dispose of the animals\nI now am keeping.\nSince Miss Dunn has been under my observation, I felt that I ought to carry\non some more work. She has a combination of conditions and I am sure her trouble was\nnot due to radium but nevertheless the fact remains that she has about one hundred\nmicrograms of radium in her system and pieces of her jaw bone are active. I want to\nfill the teeth of a group of dogs with your material and then let them live for a number\nof years taking frequent X-ray pictures and compare them with a normal group. This\nwould be the final answer to the question, tho of course you are through with your legal\nside. The following extract of a letter that I just received may interest you.\n\" He has been using a radio-active material as the cement and root filler for ap-\nproximately a. year with no bad reports. He has not made a scientific check of these\nresults. To do this, it will be necessary to bring in the patients and make a check on\neach one by x-ray and objective symptoms. In the cases where he has used the paste or\nroot canal filler, the nerve has been exposed or relatively so and the tooth was aching.\nImmediately after applying the paste, all discomfort disappeared and no bad results\nhave been reported. W realize that possibly not sufficient time has slapsed for him\nto determine whether there is to be any bad after effects.\"\nT is paste is a mixture of zinc sulphide and radium.\nI estimate I can carry on this research if I can get 8. lymp sum of $2000.00\nit will see me through all that I want to do.\nYours truly\nFriden is B. B.J.lim"
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