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    "ocrText": "-8-\ncare to do anything at this time which might reflect unfavorably upon such a\nprogram. Should this come to pass and the matter be cleaned up, I believe\nthat we would be in a much better position to discuss the matter of publication\nof this article with the Committee.\nPretaining to the authorship of this work: I believe that both\nDr. Flinn and the members of our Committee would be better satisfied should\nthe data regarding the Dunn and Dumschott cases be published with Dr. Flinn\nas the author or co-author, while that on the two cases - namely, Miss Fryer\nand Mrs. Hussman should be published as a joint paper by you and Dr. Fialla.\nIt is extremely unfortunate that Dr. Flinn has not seen fit to accept\nour offer to cooperate with him in making more extensive radio-active deter-\nminations of the excreta of the cases he has studied, for had he accepted our\noffer and we had proceeded to collect a complete series of data, Dr. Flinn\nwould be in a position to make a real contribution in this field. However, he\napparently does not elect to do this and, as I previously advised, I don't\nbelieve we can do any more than we have to work out the problem along this\nline. On soveral occasions I have urged Dr. Flinn to systematically collect\nthe excreta of the cases he has had, but as I recall it, the only samples\nsubmitted were those of the Dunn case very early in this work. Dr. Flinn's\ncontributions to this field, as I look over the situation, seem to be in a\nstory form rather than scientific in nature in that it does not present\nscientific data.\nIt would, therefore, seem that the matter of publishing this\narticle resolves itself down to the basis that we should defer samo at this\ntime, and consider a little further the exact way in which we should proceed\nat a later date.\nOn your next visit to New York we can have an opportunity to discuss\nthis, and you in turn can talk with both Dr. Flinn and Dr. Fialla regarding\ntheir foolings on the matter and, probably arrive at something which will be\nfar more satisfactory than we could by correspondence.\nSincerely yours,\nVice President.\nHHBarker : RH"
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