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    "ocrText": "June 27th,1929.\nDr. Herman Schlundt,\n303 Hichs Ave.,\nColumbia,Mo.\nDear Dr. Schlundt:\nFor the last two days I have been making a rather\nstrenuous effort to get into communication with you, but have not met\nwith much success.\nA Mr. W.A. Curtis of Ashand, New Hampshire, came\ninto the office on Wednesday of this week, pretaining to some possible\npitchblend deposits in N.H. and, in talking with Mr. Curtis I found\nthat he has been taking Radothor off and on for the past three years.\nHe at one time suffered intense paid from arthritis but gained relief\nthru Radothor. He is still badly crippled as a result of arthritis\nor rheumatism, but claims that he now suffers no paid and further feels\nthat the movement of the afflicted joints is continually improving.\nAll in all he presents a wonderful picture of a man who has devived\nbenefits with the use of Radothor.\nMr. Curtis is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin\nand about your age. He has been associated with the newspaper industry\nfor the past number of years and seems to be a man of affairs in his\ncommunity. I discussed the matter of possible hazards in connection\nwith the internal use of radium quite freely with Mr. Curtis and told\nhim that we would be extremely anxious to conduct a few tests to\nascertain the amount of radio-active materials deposited in his sytem\nat this time. He seemed entirely agreeable and expressed a thought\nthat he would be glad if it was possible for him to contribute anything\n-2-\nin this field.\nI first suggested that he get in touch with Dr. Flinn in order that\nDr. Flinn might make gamma ray tests as well as expired air, but I found on call-\ning Dr. Flinn that he is out of town and will not return until Monday of next welsk.\nIt seems to me that this man offers an opportunity to obtain some very pertinent\ndata on this subject and, considering the type of scientific data which Dr. Flinn\nhas collected in the past we feel that we would not got the most to be had by his\nhandling the case. We, therefore, wish to put up to you the matter of coming to\nN.Y. and taking this case under study, such study consisting for the time being of\nan examination by gamma ray and expired air methods - further, you can ascertain\nwhether or not you would desire to have Mr. Curtis forward to you excreta for\nexamination.\nAs I visualize the situation there would be no objection to the tests\nbeing made at Dr. Flinn's office, but I do feel that it is extremely important\nthat you participate in these tests - one of my reasons for this is the fact that\nthe Committee apparently are not willing to give Dr. Flinn's work much cognizance.\nI feel that the data which we would obtain from a case like this is of sufficient\nimportance that it should be brought to their attention and, that you are in a\nposition to do this.\nMr. Curtis is remaining in town until Sat. afternoon of this week, and\n* was, therefore, in hopes that it would be possible for you to come to N.Y. to\nexamine him on Friday or Saturday, but due to the delay in getting into communica-\ntionwith you I realize that this would be impossible. We have one or two pro-\ncedures to follow out at this time - First, Mr. Curtis advises that he is in and\nout of N.Y. occasionally and, would be glad to advise us of his next trip here ad,\nwe could then arrange for you to come on at the same time. The other would be for\nyou to come on this summer and proceed to Ashland, N.H. and make your study up\nthere.\nThere might be some advantage in this procedure for I understand that\n-2-\nMr. Curtis has interested others in his community in using Radothor and, it is\nquite possible that through Mr. Curtis's cooperation you might examine others.\nThe U.S.R.Corp. would be glad to pay your expenses in connection with\nthis work. We trust that you will deem the problem of sufficient interest to\ncompensate you for your time, for we would hardly feel justified in reimbursing\nyou for that phase of the situation at the moment.\nDuring my absence Mr. wee will take care of this matter and, will make\nany arrangements which will be necessary.\nI am very much in hopes that you will see your way clear to come on and\nmake this investigation this summer You would have an opportunity at the same\ntime to calibrate the gamma ray machine at Dr. Flinn's office.\nIn the event that you would care to go up to N.H. to make the study,\narrangements had better be made in advance in order to be assured that Mr.Curtis\nwould be available. You will find Mr. Curtis a well educated man and a man with\nwhom you can discuss the subject freely. Inasmuch as you are both Wisconsin\nmen you should find considerable interest in common.\nSincerely yours,\nVice President.\nHHBarker:RH"
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