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    "ocrText": "UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI\nCOLUMBIA\nJune 12, 1929\nJUN 131929\nDEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY\nMr. H. H. Barker, Vice-President\nUnited States Radium Corporation\n535 Pearl Street\nNew York, N. Y.\nMy dear Howard:\nThere are several things about which I would like to say a few words at this\ntime. In the first place, I want to thank you for your very generous offer to ad-\nvance me some money which the two insurance companies owe. I shall be glad to re-\nimburse your firm when I receive payment for the insurance companies. Let me suggest\nthat we arrange it on the following basis: I am most concerned with the money that\nwas actually paid out for traveling expenses. In looking up the bill, I find that\nthis total amount for the two trips to New York was $214.30. Suppose we throw off\nthe thirty cents (.30) which will leave $214, and since you have already advanced me\n$60, the balance would be $154, and with this amount in hand, I shall be in good post\nition to carry out my summer plans which I outlined briefly in my former letter to\nyou. Perhaps, it would simplify matters for you to advance me the $214, then when\nthe money comes to you, take out the $60 which I owe you and send on to me the bal-\nance of $154.\nI don't know whether the reprints had arrived when I wrote you about a week ago,\nbut the package has now come to hand and I have read over again the paper and it\nseems to me it covers most of the important points. It seems to me that we now have\nin hand sufficient data to publish a second paper incorporating the rate of elimi-\nnation of radium in the excreta. We could include wi th the data on Miss Fryer and\nMrs. Hussman the determinations made on the excreta of Mrs. Dunschott and those of\nyours on Miss Dunn. Doubtless the question of publication of these results should be\ntaken up with the Committee, unless you feel that the Committee simply cooperated with\nus in carrying forward our experiments. The expense of the experiments, I understand,\nwas borne entirely by your company. Shall I proceed to write up these results with\na view of publication.\nFully two weeks have now elapsed since I wrote to Dr. Flinn, reminding him of\nthe desirability of calibrating the garma ray instrument by means of the standar d\nampules which you have supplied. Thus far I have received no reply so I assume he\nis still engaged in completing the experiments.\nProbably your attention has already been drawn to the July number of the Popular\nScience Monthly. The first article in this issue features the five radium cases.\nSome hope is expressed of their ultimate recovery upon the basis of the radioactive\ndeposits consist largely of mesothorium instead of radium.\nmg\nI assume that either you or Dr. Flinn will supply members of the Committee and\nalso Dr. Failla with copies of our paper. We must not forget Dr. Martland. I am\nsending copies to Dr. Moore and Dr. Lind, and the rest of my distribution wf 11 be\nlargely to local friends who are interested in this investigation. I hope you wi 11\nalso supply Dr. Thompson of the United States Public Health Service and his Associate\nDr. Ives, and please do not forget Mrs. Hughes and I assume that the watch companies\n2/Barker\nwill be interested.\nIn one of your letters you mentioned that Dr. Flinn was working on a\nnew therapy for eliminating radium. I wonder whether this might not be\nfollowing up a suggestion I made to him last summer, to administer\nsmall quantities of barium salt, either the chloride or the sulphate. He\nat\nhad once objected to this suggestion because barium was regarded as toxic,\nbut I reminded him of the fact that barium sulphate is given internally when\nX Ray pictures are takn of the stomach and elementary canal. It would\ncertainly be interesting to examine for radioactivity one or two of Mr.\nBailey 's steady customers.\nPlease do not let anything interefere with your proposed trip. You will\nget quite a thrill out of the adventure.\nHow is the mesothorium market?\nWith very good wishes, I remain\nSincerely yours,\nHerman Schlundt\nHerman Schlundt\nHS:RO"
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