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    "ocrText": "December 22nd,1930.\nDr. Herman Schlundt,\nUniversity of Missouri,\nColumbia, No.\nDear Dr. Schlundt:\nYour letter addressed to my home, giving\nsome of the results reported to you by Dr. Flinn, has been\nreceived. Also I may say that Dr. Flinn sent me a copy\nof the letter which he addressed to you, but I must admit\nI had not read this letter over carefully up to the time of\nreceiving your comments.\nApparently Dr. Flinn has no data, or at\nleast did not submit any data of the expired air tests con-\nducted upon this girl prior to the administration of his\ntreatment. We are, therefore, not in a position to compare\nthe expired air test after treatment and before. However,\nfrom the gamma ray test of the patient it is quite reasonable\nto assume that the expired air would not disclose any such\namount as 600 micrograms of radium being deposited in the\nsystem. Neither can I subscribe to the fact that by this\ntreatment of any other treatment would it be possible to\nobtain such a large natural drift as Dr. Flinn has on a\npatient normally containing a reasonable amount, say 10 to\n20 micrograms of radium element. I, therefore, feel that\nthere must have been some error introduced into this work\nwhich Dr. Flinn has not taken into consideration.\nIn his letter addressed to you he cites\nsome three other cases, one of which only discloses any\nunreasonable amount of radon in the expired air, the other\ntwo cases are quite normal and apparently present a picture\nmore or less as it should be.\nI may say that Dr. Craber had a conference\nwith Dr. Flinn relative to his method of treating these\npatients, where he claims to have gotten such favorable results\nand Dr. Craver has on more than one occasion indicated that\nDr. Flinn was very indéfinite regarding what was done, and\napparently equally indefinite as to the results obtained.\nDr. Craver seemed to feel that Dr. Flinn's work really lacked\na true scientific aspect, and therefore, in the four cases\nnow being treated he is carrying the thing out very methodic-\nally and on a very much more systematic basis than Dr. Flinn"
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