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-X. - To: l ea d in du st r ies a sso c ia t io n MO LEXINGTON AVENUE NEW YORK 17, N. Y- . 3/19/ Dr. K-ehoe From; Manfred Bowditch The attached from Dr. Byers will, I believe, be of interest to you. \ OQGl ( 3 Excerpts from letter March 16, 1955 Randolph K. Byers, M.D., The Children's Medical Center, Boston to Manfred Bowditch. We now have had experience with five children treated with Versene, and it is quite evident that the drug clears the child of the circulating and actively toxic lead much more rapidly than has been the case with any other medication. How to go about protecting children from the long-time ef fects of lead poisoning 'with-this drug is, it seems to me, another matter, and oner'which ought to be seriously thought about. So far we have been giving several courses, about three, of the drug, and then following that a day's collection of.urine. At the end of that time most of the children have shown no evidence oil physical or chemical examination of residual lead poisoning, but the last two children have only just finished their first course of treatment in the last week or ten days-; 0006174 N 7512.01