Letters Sent to Dr. Herman Schlundt, May 5, 1931

May 5th,1931. Dr. Herman Schlundt, University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo. Dear Dr. Schlundt: Thru Dr. John and Armstrong, of the Badium Extension Service, the Elgin State Hospital are undertaking quite an extensive program in treating mental cases with radium chloride, administered internally. I think the interest of the Institution on this subject was aroused by Dr. Carlson, and while he is not active in the matter, still I believe he is consulting with the officials at the Institution on the subject. Dr. Le Blane of Elgin, III., has been conducting quite an extensive survey on blood tests for Dr. Read, the head physician at Elgin State Hospital. I don't exactly know what the purport of Dr. Le Blanc's work is, but apparently he feols that there is a possibility of tying up a definite blood change with the introduction of radium chloride into the system. Dr. Le Blane's work in this connection may be of considerable interest to Mr. Thomas and his Associate in their study of the effects of radium chloride physiologically, at the University of lissouri. An idea of what Dr. Le Blane is doing may be obtained from an article entitled #Bickinetics of the Blood", by F. LeBlane, appearing in Clinical Medicine and Surgery, for January 1930. Further material regarding this line of work may be found in a book printed under the auspices of Cornell University, under date of June 1930, and known as "Colloid Symposium". I have not gone into this subject matter, and therefore, cannot give you much of an idea as to what it is all about, but undoubtedly Itr. Thomas will be very much interested. Some little time ago I wrote you relative to possible interest you might have in conducting some electroseopic tests in con- junction with the administration of radium chloride to patients at the Elgin State Hospital, but have not hoard anything further from you on this subject. I am today writing Mr. Armstrong, making the suggestion that possibly there might be someone at Elgin who could conduct the routine gamma ray tests if they were properly instructed es to the technique involved, and were granted the loan of an instrument. What do you think of such an idea? Sincerely yours, HHBarker:R Vice President.