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octor Robert A.Kehoe M.D. 19 Ketterin g Laboratory, allege of Medicine, Lncinnati Ohio. 912 Broadway Bayonne N .J. September 27.1954. Dear Doctor Kehoe; Thanks for your le t t e r and your con sideration * To say I am disapoin ted i s t o t e l l you th e t r u t h . I had hoped you would help me* , I do not understand you when at the end of your le t t e r you say "I do not beleive th at your opinions concerning what happened t o you is Ju st ifie d . " The fact s a r e ,I was exposed to m etalic fumes while working as a pipe c cover er .I was also exposed t o tin abrasive du sts of my trade .These d u st s,t o my mind were not sooth ing to the membranes but sh a ll we say in flam at ive ,if th th at be the correct word, I have some of your a r t ic le s p ar t icu lar ly on le ad . Can you say(I do not ask you t o commit you rself)bu t i s i t not p ossib le th at a ft e r the abrasfce in h alation s and in gestion plu s the lar ge amounts or lead fumes inhaled and in gested d aily for seven year s,t h at th ere i s a gr eat er p o ssib ilit y to susceptive path ology more so than i f I was a welder and not a pipe coverer. Do I make myself clear ? * Those le t t e r s from oth er victims,who lik e m yself were not given th e proper treatment and lik e myself are noeln the c la ssific a t io n you put u s,as in the f i r s t par t of your let t er .A r e they t o be ignored? It i s not me alone th at have th ese h al&oin ation s, I gave you son of th e proof th at th ere are oth ers lik e me-men who have spent thousands of d o llar s and gotten where? To the place where pou say I am now. Clin ical work to day i s as you say, up in th e a ir .What proof can I offer what proof have you a t o t a l st r an ger fin d in g,as I know you w ill find^out standin g path ology,due as you say ,I myself beleive from the in h alation of abrasive dusts and corrpsive and oth er m etals? Nonet As a new commer.But what a differen ce i f your medical and c lin ic a l and lab fin din gs were backed up by th ose doctors who have palmed me o ff to oth er doctors as they have th ose oth er victim s w&ose le t t e r s I attach ed to the sh eaf. I have asked my dootor t sa to have a con su ltation of th ose oth er doctors who knew me seven years ago p ar t icu lar ly Dr Largay who t r eat ed me up to two years ago fo r Grippe whwn i t was r e ally Metal Fume Fever and which he said in h is c e r t ific a t e ,t h a t my lowered r esist an ce could be from the in h alation of m etalic fumes.He ju st shrugged h is shoulders.No con su ltation . This proceedure with ms as with the many oth ers I have contacted get s us no w h ere.lt does fat t en the co ffe r s of the medical p r offession and p r ot ect s the funds of the insuran ce c a r r ie r s. That path ology of th e muscles i s assured from the storin g up of lead in the system you know i s t r u e . But whfct has been done about i t ? Nothing. Sven to t h is day,and I have t r ie d con tin uiously t o see a pat h ologist and t oxicolo gist h as been fu t il e . Why? Kehoe 2 I mentioned in my le t t e r th at I had Xrays in my,I said ,in my possession th at w ill proove path ology of th e lungs as far hack as 1947 with xrays taken in 1942 th at w ill show clear lu n gs* These xrays you could have examined i f you had asked fo r them* That Dr.Potter of th e h osp it al fo r Chest d iseases in Medical Center Jer sey cit y lo st a complaete set taken at in t er vals of six years i s or could be an accid en t *As lar ge as the package was i t could have been an acciden t, hut when a sim ilar set was aj^so lo st by the medical department or the Navy Yard was also l o st , woslid you c a ll i t an acciden t or coinciden t or d elib erate? These Xrays would show the gen eral pat h ological changes in both lun gs. I t r y not to be an aly t ical or mean or act as a person with a persecution complex,but I have your own item on lead poison in g.I have met with the men who lik e m yself cannot work and t h eir wives and fam ilie s and I know th at we are a l l not victim s of a complex* My fr ien d s in the nut house* Manganese. This st u ff st or es up fo r years.Twenty i s not uncommon. Yet when I n oticed a ft e r being down in th e h olds of sh ips where welding was being dons and th e fumes were h eavy.I would,when I came up on top t o urin ate p ass deep redish colored urin e. I thought it was due t o h olding my water longer than comming up t o the top side more often .Th is was a job,clim bin g 1& lad d er s. Many of us would hold our water rath er than make the clim b. ffojtnstone n otes in h is book t h is reddish color but Dr Wally wanted it t o be a brigh t brock r ed . Now you know th ere are allow an ces. My claim i s v a lid . That I am assured of and you know i t . But what are we t o do? Take i t on th e ch in? Not me. A Jew fr ien d t old me th at I have th e in t elligen ce and with proper collobor ation I should w rite a book about t h is damnable st u ff and th e lack o f medical men who can properly diagnose our casees and the lack of c lin ic s in hospt a l s to cope with our cases when and i f we are properly diagn osed. That i s why I wrote you in th e f i s r t place t o see ju st what your college i s doing to creat medical men who can handle our cases and properly diagnose them. Hoplessn ess and fr u st r at ed are the men whom I have encoun tered.I beleive th at my book w ill prevent such occurences in the future when my book i s put in t h eir hands and th ey can fin d the know how,about get t in g t o lab s for blood and urine t e st s of lead in p ar t icu lar ,w h ile i t is s t i l l in the system. Then the path ology of the muscles etc can w ell be est ab lish ed . It i s th e ig norance of the victim who i s pdt of work and w h o'after much lo ss of time i s sen t t o a lab and then t old th ere i s do lead in h is body liq u id s,fo r one reason and one reason alon e he has bean slowed t o wait u n t il the m etal h as been excreted. Manganese and Fluoride I am t old ,t h at th ere i s no method known th at w ill d e fin it e ly proove fo r the cou rts excess m etals in the system. I f t h is is a l i e then blame i t on one or the br igh test chemists in t h is m etropolitah area and not on me.I have h is w ritten word for i t . .. Two weeks ago.|l occassion ally get a head condition.The doctors have me runnigg Kehoe 3 to t h e ir o ffic e s every day or so . take t h e ir nose drops etc.Then the in fection se t t le s in the lun gs. ) ^ Here i s what I diagnose for my s e l f . The area over the so ft p alat e i s where i t st a r t s. The drip gettin g worse ge t s down in to th e lun gs(already fibr osed and a s the broncosc ophy showed bron ch eictasis) and the puss gath erin g th er with the puss or igin ally caused by my lung in fection makes me damned sick . My fever runs 103 and b e t t e r . So I fin d th at a shot or two of pen n icillan o or a s the doctor ordered t h is la st time b ic illa n does the job in one or two v i s i t s . Why then keep me running t o the o ffice at th ree bucks per v i s i t . l t h as now gone to five bucks. Sh is le t s me ou t. i- Bron ch iectasis? Fib r o sis? They can come from ordinary c o ld s.St ill th ey are both symptoms of ir r it a n t du sts and ch em icals. ~ Shy not give me th e ben efit of the doubt? Now doctor you say I am get t in g of th e t r ack . I am get t in g b it t e r .I am t e llin g the doctor what h is bu sin ess i s . Dr Wally when I asked him i f th ere were no nodular showing in the xrays he took o f me looked at me and became in su lt e d .st ill rrom the Xrays I have in my home show th at i f the proper tech n ical methods had been used in th e takin g of the Xrays th ey would have shown up . So what? 4* Cover up your typew riter B ill and for get i t . See a few more suckers and get to h e ll and gone on the job and get your book out. The Jew w ill fin ance i t . What I wanted to say,was,two weeks ago I went t o a h osp it al and a china boy looked at me and sen t me for a sh ot or b icillan .Th at fixed me up. He wants me to go for a check up but a i l I w ill get i s more heat and lung h eart and lun g-h eart and lun g. That i s what it was in the p ast th at is what i t w ill be in th e fu t u r e. The china boy noted my t o n sils. What a wonderful tonsilsctomy.Who did th e job?.You,Dr Keh oe,figure i t ou t . Fluoride at t ack s th e septum in the n ose. We in su lated our nose as I ekPlained in my le t t e r t o you with vasalan e. But here i s a gen eral athropy of the t o n sils as prrosen in th e sh eaf of data,from enlarged inflamed t o n sils in 1941,t i l l now two doctors,on e of long standin g p r o fe ssion ally and one young in tern say,"What a wonderful t on silec t omy.Who did i t ? " Yeah .What happend the t o n sils?I s t h is what causes the head in fection s th at se t t le in th e lun gs? I ain t no doctor. I'm je st askin .