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February 15, 1945 Major F. V . Schroeder, P . 0. B o x 8 7, Glenview, Illinois. My dear Major Schroeder: I am afraid it will be a little difficult for me to give much useful, information or advice in response to your letter of February 5 . At this distance and with the information you have given me, I cannot arrive at any conclusion concerning the nature of your illness, and this makes it quite impossible for me to express any opinion as to its cause or its treatment. I may say, h o w ever, that I consider it very unlikely that yo u have suffered any injury of a permanent sort as the result of any exposure to gasoline containing tetraethyl lead. Moreover, X joubt very much if any permanent injury could have resulted from breathing the air in the cockpit of a plane, even though this air should have been contaminated with exhaust g a s e s . I feel quite certain that no injurious effect of a prolonged character i/ould have resulted f r o m such exposure, unless yo u have been entirely overcome and rendered completely uncon- sicous by carbon monoxide poisoning. However, no useful pur pose will be served by my making a series of guesses about your condition or its cause. It seems likely to me that you have had a physician examine you and that such a physician could give me detailed information on your present condition. If this could be cone, either by your physician or by yourself through him, I might then be able to have an opinion which might be useful to you- In that case I should be very glad to hear from you or your doctor, and I will do m y best to give you my opinion and advice. _ Sincerely yours, I'AK ef Robert A . "Kenoe, M. X)T HE 0016233