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FILE NAME: Saranac (SAR) DATE: 1943 Feb 24 DOC#: SAR008 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Letter from Dr. Gardener, Saranac Lab, to Vandiver Brown, J-M, RE Experiments T h e S a r a n a c La b o r a t o r y FOR THE STUDY OF TUBERCULOSIS ' O f THI EDWARD L. TRUDEAU FOUNDATION Saranac Lake, N.Y. February 24, 1943 I Z C li.; vl i b:?' J Mr. Vandiver Erov/n Johns-Manville Corporation 22 East 40th Street New York, New York Dear Mr. Brown: ,, I have at last succeeded in analyzing nost of our .vgt35kinous experimental data end assessing: the results?) I realize ''t^at"this should have been completed before this, but the emergency has left me short-handed in the Laboratory and also necessitated my doing a good deal of extra traveling. I hope that the sponsors of our study of asbestoais will be oharitable and realize that the work has far exceeded its original scope. We have done over 40 different experiments, many of them divided into several parts, which involved exposure of animals for 1 to 3 years to various dusts. The business of preparing micro scopic sections and chemically analyzing the tissues on more than 800 animals has been a Job in itself. My time for studying sections and analyzing data has been so limited that we are behind our sched ule. T have still not had time to write a full report of this work which will of necessity be monographic. However, for the benefit of the contributors, I an subnittlng a table of oontents and an an notated outline to indicate conclusions and the line of argument that will be developed. The latter itself occupies 15 pages, but I hope they will find it sufficiently interesting to read. I shall work on the final manuscript as I have opportunity. There ere a few experiments still in progress which should be completed by the time we are ready for them, *he work on methods.of dust determination, I oonsider important enough to in clude in the study. The question of cancer susceptibility now seems more significant than I had previously Imagined. I believe I can obtain support for repeating it from the cancer research group. As it will take two or three years to oomplete such a study, I believe it would better be omitted from the present report. If it should become possible to make this study, I hope that I any count on some of your members to supply me with enough pure, long fibre asbestos for the purpose. : ? XAb-tji Mr. Vandiver Brown - 2- February 24, 1943 Naturally, I shall welcome any oritioism that you or any of the other contributors would care to offer. 8hould any of then want to disousB details, I-would be pleased to meet with then. May I take this opportunity to thank all the sponsors through you for the support that ve have had. Sinoerely yours, LUG:~3H Leroy U. Gardner, M. D. Director