Letters Sent to Dr. Herman Schlundt, December 26, 1928

December 26th,1928. Dr. Herman Schlundt, 404 Hicks Ave., Columbia, Mo. Dear Dr. Schlundt: Your letter of December 24th, with bill attached for expense account for trip to Washington arrived today, and we are herewith forwarding check to cover. I have had occasion during the last day or 30 to look up the work by Siel, Viol & Gordon, and believe that you will find the data regarding this work extremely interesting in view of the experiments which you have recently been conducting. The reference is "Radium 5; 40-41, May 1915". They have conducted experiments with radium taken orally as well a.s intravenously, and there is no reason why your results should not check with those recorded. The only point at issue in my mind is their assumption regarding the rate of elimination after 10 days. You will note that their data ends at this period, and they have reported no radium deter- mination after that time. In view of the rather large quantity which they used, their mork would have been much more valuable had they continued the experiments for a matter of months. I sent the tube containing 1.1 milligrams of radium element to Dr. Flinn last week, and while talking with him today he stated that it had been received, and that he was today making the deterninations requested. He will return the tube directly to you, as well as sending the data obtained. Dr. Flinn feels very good over the outcome of the conference in Washington, as he feels that his position has been more or less substantiated. Dr. Martland has come around to Dr. Flinn's way of thinking on a number of points at issue - namely, the distribution of radium throughout the system; possibility of the five girls in question, living a normal life, if not recovering their normal health; belief that with the elimination of pointing the brushes with the lips the hazard will be nil, etc. Dr. Martland and Dr. .Flinn returned on the same train, and Dr. Martland was disposed to be quite friendly with Dr. Flinn. It seems to me that this conference may result in a more nutual understanding among all, and perhaps better