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* * * * * TELEPHONE CENTRAL 1250 SUITE 1503 - 69 WEST WASHINGTON STREET CHICAGO April 17th., 1936. Dr. Robert Kehoe, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Eden & Bethseda Aves., Cincinnati, Ohio. Dear'Siri At the request of Mr. R. L. Jordan, Division Man ager of the Chicago Office of the Ethyl Gasoline Corpora tion, I am handing you enclosed a typewritten copy of the" hospital record of the Illinois Research .and Educational Hospital, concerning the illness of one is the plaintiff in a suit against the Pack- srd Motor Car Compan3r of Chicago in the Superior Count, of Cook Gounty, for a sickness claimed to be lead poisoning due to inhaling ethyl gasoline fumes leaking from some part of a heater or exhaust from a used Packard automobile which he had purchased from the Packard Motor Car Company, in which he used ethyl gasoline, which he alleges was recom mended by the agents and servants of the Packard Motor Car Company. business at the time of the purchase of the car wsu^anc^ne is, an embalmer. Mr. Jordan advises me that you would like to ana lyze the hospital record, and I shall be pleased to have a report of your findings, together with any technical data that you may be able to give me as to whether or not an in dividual who drives an automobile, in which he uses ethyl gasoline, can suffer as a consequence lead poisoning by in halation of exhaust fumeS'that might leak from the exhaust or from a leaky gasoline line. Please return the hospita.1 record when it has served your purpose. I am sending a copy of this letter to Hr* Jordan for his information. Yours very truly, 0010784