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January o, 1 9 ^ 9 Dr. A . Le-cklider, Fis h e r Bodies Plant p, Detroit, Michigan- Dear Doctor Lecklideri I am in receipt of your telegram of January b . I am replying by letter since I cannot comply with your request (since I do not have reprints of the Boston Symposium), and since it occurs to m e chat your purposes m i g h t b e t t e r b e served othex'Wise. This last point calls for some explanation. I judge f r o m your request that y o u w ould like to have :he bes t a v a i l a b l e i n f o r m a t i o n on o c c u p a t i o n a l lead p o i s o n i n g__ ir the use of physician w i t h w hom yo u are associated in your work. If this is the case, I think you will find t o t t e r m a t e r i a l a v ailable else- w h e r e . on tills account I a m s e n d i n g y o u u n d e r canate over a copy cf the D e p o r t of the O o m m i t t e e of the .'unei1?,, can Tubi ic health -issocration, w h i c h in my o p i n i o n is b y fa r the est and mo: a u t h o r i t a t i v e d i s c u s s i o n of o c c u p a t i o n a l lead po is on ing th< t is to be f ound in the E n g l i s h language- The Comm i t t ee , of wit- ch I liad the h o n o r to be chairman, r e v iewed w h o l e s1i tuattion c-a:refully and m a d e its report in 194`5* The c o m p o s i t i o n cf the C o m m i t t e e was such that almost every point of view was represented, and contro- versial material was largely exc'luded. tome few significant contributions have been made to the subject since the issuance of this report, but little or no new material was introduced at the B o s t o n meeting. A c t u a l l y it would h ave b e e n quite i m p o s s i b l e to cover the subject adequately in such a meeting as that w h i c h was held in B o s t o n , and it w ould be1 ag r e e d b y ail con c e r n e d that a number of subjects were not even touched upon. I Jo not have all of the reprints of the papers given at chat conference, but I am sending you a copy of m y c o n t r i b u Lion to the Symposium. It " entirely p o s s i b l e tiat the combined r e p r i n t s can b e obtained f r o m the ed ;.ors of O c c u p_a t i o n a l m e d i c i n e , ana if y o u li!kre, X shall try c find out wine the r this is the case so as to see if the reprints that you. have r e q u e s t e d 'can be obtain ed. Y o u may have some specific purpose in mind that I am not aware of, and possibly tills could be done. On the o t h e r hand, I think the report w o u l d serve your purposes better, and I can send y o u 5 copies cf the report (the green booklet sent under separate cover). Or, alternaid ve- ly, you can obtain them from the office of the American Public co: 75 con.Health Association at :ne acid] .no : uted per copy. Another possibility is that I could send you 25 sets of g i v i n g various of the papers of tills L aboratory . I send of t h e s e ja l t h o u g h n o t all of them, as e x a m p l e s of the typTVo' rvf1 ' f ^ ^ *2 2 U N13948 Dr. Lecklider - (2) - January O 1949 i n f o r m a t i o n that is avail a b l e - I do no t m e a n to sugges t b y this that all of the recent contributions to the subject have been made in this Laboratory, but I think it is fair to say that the most important of them have had that origin. We are preparing a series of papers on the lead metabolism, which will deal with the problem of deleading, and a number of other similar practical problems, and reprints of these can be made available as they appear. In cidentally, for your information, since this matter has been in controversy for a much longer period than it deserves, we have established beyond any doubt, that deleading cannot be successfully accomplished by any of the means that have been recommended for that purpose. In fact, it is quite clear at this time, that the only therapeutic agent which has any appreciable effect on the lead me fcabol;' sm :.e ;X - unf or tuna te l y , the r e no evidence that 1rs use for this purpose contri b u t e s in an y m a t e r i a l way to .O tageeus treatment of lead poisoning. If yo u will let m e k n o w y o u r wishes w i t h resp e c t to any of these reports and rep r i n t s , I should be glad to do my b e s t to c a r r y them out. sincere ly y our s , . ,, Ut ef leprincs under separate cover. /-3Vi -i i..01J.0C , i'l K 00120 !A YFE - Ji 6 1949 :h $ E?HINTS "CONFEHENCE ON LEAD POISONING BOSTON 1946" IP YOU A OFFICE PLEASE ADVISE WHERE OBTAINABLE SEND DR A S LECKLIDER FISHER BODIES PLANT 29 DETROIT MICHIGAN calcs oe obtained f r o m A .M.A ., 595 N D e a r b o r n St., ei N13948.01 E 0032Ji^