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    "ocrText": "UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA\nSCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY\nMINNEAPOLIS\nDecember 1, 1930\nOFFICE OF THE DEAN\nDESA 1938\nMr. H. H. Barker\nVice President, United States Radium Corporation\n535 Pearl Street\nNew York City\nDear Barker:\nI have your letter of November 29. The news of Dr. Moore is much\nbetter. He was operated on last Monday. They found glioma of the right\ntemporal lobe. They wer e unable to remove it, but the doctor believes,\naccording to Mrs. Moore, that if he recovers from the operation, the re-\nlief of pressure will give him at least several years of additional use-\nfulness. since it is now a week since his operation, I assume his chances\nof recovery from it are very good. He will not be able to have visitors\nfor another week or two, so I do not expect to see him before that time.\nThe doctors estimate it will be four or five weeks before he recovers from\nthe operation, so that I assume that would be quite unable to come to New\nYork as early as January 5.\nThe time is not so good for me as I have to be in Cleveland the pre-\nvious week at the meeting of the American Association.\nHowever, since you were counting on Dr. Moore, and have no one else\nto take his place, I feel some obligation in replacing him. May I inquire\nwhat your arrangements with him were in regard to retainers for readiness\nto serve, if there were any? I remember that he told me once that he would\nask for such an arrangement.\nPlease give me some information about the Tuck and Metz cases.\nWith best regards,\nSincerely yours,\ns. C. Lind\nS. C. Lind,\nDirector.\nSCL:EN\nCopy to Professor H. Schlundt, University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo.\nH. H. B. - 2 - -\nP. S.\nIf you are in touch with Dr. Failla, would it be too much trouble for you\nto find out what the doctors recommend as to radiation in such cases as Dr. Moore's?\nAt Mayo's, they seem to think that as soon as his wound is healed, that either\nX-radiation or radium radiation would be desirable, but I know nothing about the\ndosage. I believe they have only about seven hundred milligrams at Rochester, and\nI do not suppose that they can command more than half of this for a single radiation,\nassuming that most of their radium is in solution. I had thought possibly that the\nbest thing would be radiation with the large gamma ray bell at the Memorial Hospital,\nwhich I believe contains four thousand milligrams, but of course, I know nothing\nabout the most desirable dosage.\nS.C. Lind,\nDirector."
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