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radium in the dust he collected from the working room in Orange,
and competent dentists in Boston did not agree with the readings
made in Nevark on the same facts which he did not publish
in his printed article, although these should have appeared in a
scientific statement of the case. Purthermore, practically all
of his references referred to blood changes, and not to bone changes.
Mt feelings fluctuated, as I could not find any evidence of trouble
outside the Orange plant, and I folt that there must have been some
peculiar condition in that plant that did not exist in others.
In November, 1925 I heard Dr. Martland read a paper before the
Pathological Society and wrote Mr. Reeder that if any jury had heard this
paper, there souldn't be any doubt as to the verdict, and suggested
that he compromise the case then in docket if possible. I felt that
Dr. . Martland vas honest in his remarks, al though not accurate in all
cases.
I then decided to write to Dr. Drinker for a copy of his
blood findings on the girls in the Orange plant and, still under the
influence of Martland's paper, used the remark which seeme to have
vorried you and caused them some satisfaction. This remark simply
meant that after hearing Martland's paper my opinion was upset and
I e Couldn't holp but feel that radium might be partially to blame
for the conditions. As my investigation proceeded I was faced with
the facts enumerated in my first paper and while I argued against
them in my own mind, there was no way that I could explain the orange
cases except by infection. The suggestion as to the mode of in
gress of the radium into the jaw bone did not tally with my experi-
ments. Finally, for lack of money to carry on the research, I wound
up my work and published my findings. After my paper had been ac-
cepted but before it was published, the case in Taterbury was sent
as me as a suspicious case and I again began to waver in my hypothesis.
This would never have been called a radium case if I had not so naned
it. The blood picture vas not indicative of radium exposure, if we are
to believe the literature. But I called both this and the second case
in Connecticut radium cases for the folloving reasons:
1. Radium exposure
2. Radium present in the body
3. Symptoms in jaw same as described by Martland and similar
to Mias Fryer! Jaw
I discussed this case before the New York Acadeny of
Medicine at their request, and stated my beliof that radium must have
been a factor in the disease.
Having found radium in each case that had developed
this pathologic condition, I felt it was a orine -- almost a sacri-
lege - to dig up Miss Maggie's body as was done. Outside of some
possible clue as to whether or not she had syphilis, there was no
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