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Columbia Unitrersitp
EPIDEMIOLOGY
College of amo Surgem
INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE
632 WEST 168m STREET, NEW YORK
FEB 6 1931
PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
SANITARY SCIENCE
INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH
February 5, 1931.
Mr. H.H. Barker,
United States Radium Corporation,
535 Pearl Street,
New York City.
Dear Mr. Barker:
At last I am going to write to you on a more pleasant subject.
€
One of the doctors here has a case in which he has asked me
to produce a low grade radium poisoning, "blood poisoning. 11 What he
really wants is to treat the patient with radium chloride so as to assist
in the elimination of calcium from the body.
We expect to make a complete study of the case including the
elimination, storage, and blood chemistry. Will you tell me what size
ampules you usually put up for the medical profession, also if you put
any solutions similar to the rado-thor which Baily is putting up?
It is my feeling that we will inject ten micrograms of radium
chloride into the patient and then every so often, say once in ten days
give her one or two micrograms of the salt by mouth. Have you any
special literature besides what I have indicating how the treatment has
been carried on in the profession? This case is one in which there has
been excessive calcium deposition since birth and I think it will be
interesting to watch the effect if any from the internal treatment from
radium. How do you charge the profession for such ampules as the order
will go througn Presbyterian Hospital Purchasing Department, and how soon
if they decide to treat the patient this way could we get such ampules.
Dr. Murray is now in the middle west and will be back in about
ten days. On his return we expect to decide definitely how to handle
the case.
With best regards, I am
Very truly yours,
Funden is B.Thin
Frederick B. Flinn
Director Industrial Hygiene.
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