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ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO BE ADDRESSED' THE GENERALi/lJPERINT^NDENT" PLEASE QUOTE REFERENCE No. | CLINICAL RESEARCH TOT /. ft. . - - . . . . . . . . . . . . ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL .I MISSENDEN ROAD CAMPERDOWN. N.S.W. i. TELEPHONE: LA 04+4 Ext.. i 3rd August , 1950 Dear Dr* Kehoe* , I am very sorry indeed that I overlooked writing to you while I was in the States. I do not know how this came about but clearly it did* Dr. Keith Fairley very kindly sent me portion of your recent letter to him and drew my attention to the fact that I had not let you know that I was unable to come out to Cincinnati, as had been suggested. I can assure you that I never felt that I had been dealt with"in a somewhat arbitrary and cavalier manner"* I sent you a clinical report of the two patients I treated with B.A.L. following exposure to T.E.L. for your opinion as they were the only two patients that I had seen. I felt, as I always do that clinical impressions are more than unreliable* I was pleased to have your comments and decided then and there that the case reports were not worth publication. Quite apart from the fact that B.A.L. probably in no was influenced their clinical course I had no data on lead excretion etc. to make these cases worth reporting merely to add to the general literature on the subject. Whilst at Presbyterian Hospital I had discussed the paper with Dr. A Gilman and, as I think I mentioned before, he suggested I get in touch with you. During my stay at P & S there were a couple of discussions regarding the desirability or undesirability of giving B.AjL. to children with lead encephalopathy. My part in the discussions w&nc limited to mentioning that I had treated two patients with B.A.L., that they had recovered and that it was your opinion that their recovery was not specifically due to B.A.L. (?in spite of)* I am sorry that I left the Company but this was forced upon me when I took up a full-time appointment as Director of the Clinical Research Unit at this Hospital* Our major interest now lies in metabolic and hematological disorders rather than in industrial medicine. I hope that when you have the opportunity to visit us I can have the opportunity to show you something of our part of the world. I apologise for causing you embarrassment and assure you that I intended to write to explain that circumstances did not permit me to come to Cincinnati. I flew direct from New York to Sydney with no stop longer than 2 hours in the States. My best wishes,