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12150cean Ave. Santa M onica, Calif. 90401 - i& jeycy- oyz- r ITov. 15, 1964. ear Br. X e h o e : Thank you very much for pushing thru the lead assays of the 40 bone specimens sent, and for your letter of the 11th with its promise of further cooperation. The bill for $500 is as expected, and I enclose my check. '$ For my theory the' results are fairly satisfactory, even if not yet decisively probative. There are some contrary find ings, but that is to be expected. The theory is not one of possibil ity,.arid impossibility, but of tendency, w i t h some; exceptional cases to be expected, and with no possibility that one or a few discordant cases could refute the theory. It would always happen occasionally that some rich man escaped heavy leading, and that some poor man was ppisoned,'and that there could be an error somewhere along the /.//, line df (eyidencp-gathering.;The data also need further refinement ,.( /(.(. as to the xxhich-bonQ factor, and .for; age and sex and certainty of (; (;;(( .theywealth':ratihg,((;and:(:perhaps( for other factors, such as date end w /country.' I especially need more rich cases, and, verification of ; ' hieait'4-;if4here^.doubtihil:V' -Wiiich I shall seek. ', '' / | ( (.(;vHl(((;`; ( ( - I return herewith the top copy of the findings, keeping the carbon, numbering the pages as 1-4 and appending my principal data on each case. Analyzing the whole I would consider / the period, and .place, .'contrasting the. Athenian'aarket-piace .with/, -(/g; (thekk'dSs; the iaomanyrSihpire./(Two .Italian and one "Athenian1case before (the*period./of postulated' plumbism (show 'minimal lead, phe(qfv|, '`themyriCh; 4 .Athenian about the beginning /of the::(period/ show:\ % 5(toy 23 mg. per 100 g . ; all the severe cases are aboutjthe postulated ' period ,3 cases in the poifkoiaan period^ /o n which1I;^.hayetpO theory, ' show 1 .y 9 .8 and'11.7/: Considering now the postulted period in theWestern Finpire, all the poor and. probably poor people, viz. 18, come out with low or rather low led, 8.1 or less, except: 4 of the group of 5 from the Vatican hill cemetery, not very pooy where they ranged from 4.6 to 12.5-- and a case whose poverty I question (Identification number 1956.24.10.1, on cage 1, ,who had 25.8 ; and another exception with 21. 3. Ky 7 rich people preseht the most exceptions, i-xith .43, I.29, 2.31, 4.16, 7.3 15.1, and 614. mg. But 3 of the low ones are anomalous -cases, Page 3 case V-l, and p. 2, case 0B-3 x-xere s of nearly or perhaps-early dates, in 1x3.ckward p^ts of the Umpire (Bosnia /and central Ga u l ), where the Roman cookery might not have reached n the rich. Page 1, case 4.1702 is questionable as to wealth'.-' ' 'o Thirdly, as to the data from the Athenian market-place on o. h. the only one identifiable as to x/realth, case 72, was rich, little ledried, and. before the danger period, fitting perfectly. The rest, in the period or Its beginning, show a arange from 2.82 to 10.8, x/rith most of them at a dangerous level. T-^is fits perfectly with my supposition that in Athens, f r o m (5 or 400 B.C. onward, there xras a good deal of lead poisoning among the poor as well as rich, because the population of Greece declined graartly, and; Athens was a major producer of led, frn^close-by Laurjtion silver-led mines. Gilfillan-- Kehoe, Nov. 15 P* 2 As soon as you or your assistants have time I hope you can send me some findings from other researches, on the relative amounts of led stored in the various hones of k the body, and the differences we find today accouding to age and sex if significant. As I mentioned in my letter of Feb. 25 {end. of p-. I f f .) I have found various studies giving^ed data for the several bones, but no general table of the ^ p o r t i o n s going to each bone, ?uch a table as I hope you have. Nor am 1 enough of a mathematician''to. know how to average up numerous . different ratios,: such as the ratios XZK A/B, A/C, A/D, B/G, C/3, E/F, B/F, etc., to reduce thm all to a common denominator, on d : a reliable averaging basis. . , I shall be greatly obliged, ,and publicly grateful, for your assistance on any matters. i/oufid.tE' you not like to write a. signed chapter for my booh, on the methods and4ccuraey of the analydes, the degrees of m q M d i t y and sterility 'lincl infant death-rates i plus mental damage, from induced premature births etc.,) indicated , for the led percentages found; and. on any other medical and chemical matters that: you would like to write on ? v Giould., you-like me to send^ou pa: a carbon of the 8500-word, article :..I -..now.|have, out? . -v 1 - - . : . v have not heard:yetvwhen this articl will go to press in Fan- w kind Quarterly nor in Jol. of .Occup. Medicine, but should like to be, able; to- send, them 'some f i n d ^ o f a genral nature, mentioning the : help of yourselfvand the Kettering Laboratory, as soon as I do h e a r , or sooner. s : I shoud also .like to hear, whether you think:."that bones refeNING from a cremation, like those of V-l 3c 2 on p. 3 and. 03-1 A- 3 on p.2, are, acceptably and. wh^her they m should be differently rated,. They show no Sion of burning. Such bones are about all o m p a n get bs^nre 100 A.D. in-Bom. I; now have on hand, a bag o^bone fragments, about a pound from Bosnia, and am hoping for,others 'rom Athens, e s p e c i a l l y when I can find, a sponsor for my requests. Gratefully yours,