Letters Received to H.H. Barker, October 25, 1930

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI COLUMBIA DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY October 25, 1930 AIR MAIL Dr. H. H. Barker United States Radium Corporation 535 Pearl Street New York City, New York My dear Barker: Your letter just received stating that the Commission has decided to give these girls alleged to be suffering from radium poisoning the parathormone treatment is indeed good news to me. I regard this as a rather crucial experiment. In preparing a discussion of the elimination of radium from two of these girls for the paper that Dr. . Failla and I now have ready I had occasion to refer one paragraph of it to Dr. Hessler for criticism; and I men- tioned to her the proposed experiment with the four girls. She at once made the suggestion not to omit the determina- tion of the vital capacity and basal metabolic state of the girls before administering the parathormone treatment. She further suggested two persons in New York City who are qualified to cooperate in making these tests: Dr. Grace Mac Leod, Teachers College, Columbia University; Dr. Eugene Du Bois, Cornell Medical College, (Bellevue Hospital.) I shall do my very best to cooperate with the Commission in this experiment. With very good wishes, I remain, Yours sincerely, Herman Schlunott Herman Schlundt HS:AS