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November 17,1927.
Dr. Alice Hamiliton,
Industrial Department,
Harvard University Medical School,
Boston, Mass.
Dear Dr. Hamilton:
Dr. Flinn is in Washington on a metter connected
with the Public Health Service and will not return until Monday.
I am sailing tomorrow night for a week of lectures
in London.
Knowing Flinn as well as I do and realizing the
implications of the radium situation as it has developed I am sure he
will be as eager as you or I to untangle the apparent inconsistencies
of relationships.
His first series of studies I know did tend to con-
vince him of a point of view opposite to that of the Drinkers. Almost
on the day his first paper appeared there came to light the case,
later fatality, in which it seemed impossible to excape the conclusion
that it was due to radium poisoning.
Dr. Flinn has gone out of his way to make clear that
he is not an M. D. and not a pathologist, and that his reports or
comments on autopsy and other clinical and pathological points have
not been original opinions but quoted from physicians.
I am leaving your letter in the trusted hands of my
secretary here together with a copy of this note, for Dr. Flinn and
asking him to write to you or better still to see you if by chance you
are to be in this vicinity.
Thanking you for your friendliness as well as your
frankness, I am
Sincerely yours,
Haven Emerson, M.D.
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