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/ *' > - *, M edical C onsultants A u s tra lia ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO BE ADDRESSED THE GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT1 PLEASE QUOTE REFERENCE No. CLINICAL RESEARCH UNI1!1 ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED.HOSPITAL MISSENDEN ROAD CAMPERDOWN. N.S.W. TELEPHONE: LA M44 Ext....... 14th December, 1951 Dear Dr. Kehoe, thank you for your recent letter - I was most interested, to have your views on B.A.L. in children with lead encephalopathy. I share your views regarding ventricular drainage. I an now far from the Ethyl group in regard to my work, there is no tine for outside activities whilst my Clinical Research Unit is growing up. I have quite a good set-up with 14 beds and small laboratories. Ily staff is good and keen. 'Ye are interested in hemoglobinuria at present and have had some interesting patients with disorders of Ca and P metabolism. Y/e have a lot to do but, so far, little to say - that is for the future I hope* 77e see odd patients with Fb intoxication and still have trouble isolating "diagnostic" amounts of lead in the urine. I,jy laboratory does not handle this but, on account of my past association, I usually get to see the cases. I am unfamiliar with chronic plumbism with.marked C.V. changes ana am suspicious when presented with such a person. Recently I was asked concerning a male onion grower who developed, over 12 months, an insidious lower motor neuropathy with a c.s.f. protein of 25O-3OO mg % Only jerk obtained was from the jaw! C.N. intact. He nas a blood pressure or 150-160/105-110, a degree of central cyanosis, papilledema and retinal hemorrhages. lio appreciable lead in the urine. Put up as Pb ?administered by ever-loving spouse, this story does not seem right to me but may be it is. I wish you the compliments of the season and hope that 1952 will bring- you out here. Yours sincerely, C.R.B BLACKBURN