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*-i i i A/ rV lead1 lhiaiii@toai AsiclataiMi ANDREW FLETCHER,PRESIDENT C . BROWNELL, VICE PRESIDENT A. MARTINO, VICE PRESIDENT . M. ZO LLE R.VICK PRESIDENT ROBERT LINDLEY ZIEOFELD, SECRETARY-TREASURER 420 LEXINGTON AVENUE NEW YORKll.N.Y. MANFRED BOWDITCH DIRECTOR OF HEALTH AND SAFETY December 16, 1955 Robert A. Kehoe, M. D., Director Kettering Laboratory University of Cincinnati Eden Avenue Cincinnati 19, Ohio Dear Bob: Please be good enough to adjust your glasses, put your feet up, and peruse my two enclosures. They seam sufficiently self-explanatory so that I need only add that Dr. Baumgartner is Chairman of the Committee on -Scientific Assembly of the American Academy of General Practice, and that, though a most pleasant chap to meet, I see in his case some symptoms of the plumbomyopia not too uncommon in the general run of your profession. If you felt disposed to write Dr. Baumgartner, saying that I had told you of this proposal of mine and that it had your hearty en dorsement, I would feel even more disposed to wish you a Merry Christmas than I already do. Sineerely. MB: GW Enclosures KE 0014 o V i I : 1 LEAD INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION 420 Lexington Avenue New York 17, N. Y. MANFRED BOWDITCH . DIRECTOR OF HEALTH AND SAFETY Beoeaber 15, 1955 leorge .'.'heat vice President Metropolitan life insurance Company One Madison /venue lew vork 10, flew York Lear .er.rges I don't think f have yet told you. of.the rather negative upshot of session in Boston with fr. Baumgartner and f'r* Hersetet^o^d^to Ka^aa City head quarters of the Academy of General Practice* Their general^s^reicih ?/as that of questioning the interest of the Academy members i^-siiy'4iscussio'n'\?Kl9ad poisoning, though they admitted as a sort of afterthought subje&^Spf industrial medicine had got a black eye with their groujv^da a se^s^on thereon Nsfeveral years ago for which they had selected speakers who,\i& I couM have told than, could be counted on -bo be store than a bit somnifacient xo Nmich/air aggregation. About all they were prepared $d^aay"n&vthat \^y might seek to assay the in terest by means ef a questionnaire"fin their ^Hrnal^hpd that they could provide space?, for sn exhibit on plomtoisql At their 195p\ annuaXfmeeting in Washington next larch, -ith the former I would ir| glad to helfcjthera, though I question its value, but I hardly need clarify to youpiy thoughts Aput single-handedly preparing a really good exhibit and cartipf^itr-dpwn \d\LTashIngtj/a/ Especially as, when the show had been ripped down and little more of the true extent of in terest than we do hbsSr. (/ " H tut you will |gpther from ttyef enclosed to Dr. Baumgartner that L am not letting my proposal die without a struggle* The copy goes to you both Decause it was through your kindness that ^Nfirst mfitn touch with him, and iso with the thought that Bill `-hepard may be williji!C^^acr a hand in putting it - across. The blind copies to Johnstone and Kehoe are based on the possibility 'that, if his A.l'.A. Council were willing to go to bat, these two plunbically astute lads would have the most likely interest. incerely and hopefully yours, YBJQW CwTl "nclosure cc: Hr. Johnstone Hr. Xehoe . Kr 0014912 N18605.01 \ LEAD INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION 420 Lexington Avenue New York 17, N. Y. MANFRED BOWDITCH DIRECTOR OP HEALTH AND SAFETY weceisbar 12# '*55 ..rviag -.auegsrfcner, ?$ / dler ' treat "aSelahd, arylsad T* . --sr -r, fa'isjgnrtncrs vijch -so i onjoyed ~eotiag you and ' r* ..er'ei&t, ' ccsne :*!>! . i ..-nr xitle ners-ion la ;orton -atth a reeling of considerable cUsa@r^4feriorsli#| and this was not Issr^ed bv ts ccrauoienfct<'*? tsMch I'nllrnmd close on ii!^rsC2TsiW 'he /ir*t ni` these# on ecenber ?tn# tit l ;ner In debark wnc, faced uith rfo&b 1 and n<*aibinz little kaosdctiga of the s. therapy# r? mgnt my aid. fy response tms niciars ousiificd to rive tho sdv m c;nli. frV^n mvr-X erac* e 3 caoe oKlnsd p^lsoniar# fV*n Less of present-Hisy ut hiss in touch oith n cii-- vaan# nrither er.iK; 'V ..ay wild# Vile nocond tw? frays in tho\iVtifar\pspa which X n-ot* the purr - rarh .arafutn* 'r. -;rid/cs5 etiisij `eer-''t'ry oi\ {fwkfcil on ..nenstriai euXt; :f oho .''.A.# pave ,ne the nsfcses of iOsi.itto uerlija Indiana and an incnctriai r-presto** tative in --.'.issouri, both of ?& wrar seekW th infoissation Iruidcated# and sod ro to ante to , ciajsnosis and trcateiont isstn ^-'-nt to both# with s >f v&f&QmTas to 'additions! :r.fidic-al piidatice* ".'iiese are \C co nosis saa failu 'anv evidences of lack rr understanding :.-> -.T.rfc men# with iia inev liable cc-nco: itants of oistha- .meni* "ranting that'>sS~Sifm is but one of tho jccupatl .nal aii.;onts# It nvertae less snares with silicosis an Importance of the first order# .'*.nd it con bo facta-. ally stated (1) that the great aajerity of cases fall into the hands of the g `.moral practitioner, rather than of the specialist in industrial medicine# f ?) that :-ost of these sen hare left their schools ivith little or no instruction in this sub.lnct# f3) that both the proper diagnosis and treatn^t of lead intoxication call for awareness of modern (aetbods, and {It) that such cognisance in hardly to be expected tne -cmGeal practitioner who, la the years since graduation, has devotee hie time nnd talents to ministering to the thousand and ono r.vjre ecumenical diseases to which our flesh is heir* K 0014913 ': a N18605.02 '.eeeaber 1 : s .^.sitting my profess umal bias* 'this -:*eee to ss a situation "bilclj the / a^oe^y of funeral ?rafcie is in ifoty bound to a&eiiorarfcs to si;eh f'xtsnt 53 ; a den by tfos lae&as rocylily available- to it* :Inoa the scheoul ot* "Oia? annual s^-ling ia the ooso-bg yoer lias bsys shat I fcav* pmiosoa is what ys-i allot as liberal a proportion oi the prosr&m bias of your 195? meeting s in possible to diseaswlona ol: the etiology* diagnosis and treatment of pliusoisaa* and that w will then undertake to provide madicaX speakers eminently t4i.5aliil.scl to sasasse the- leadership of saoh sessions* 'fm aoald furthermore be only too glad to assist, in a stimulation off interest among sour negaters in srtvLeh* deejss of our nreooeuretioa ith tills swb3ct, ws are perhaps rather uniquely ?lol3 to C-OOpSrattg* i trust that you will .-ivy further c m thoughtful eonsidaration to this project ^nd that the ;nteor ndli be Ibsat for tsniob 1 so earnestly hope* ineerely yoara* nS-T; r-.oloavr . s r Uym&ttfb '> ihsatlsy beg Dr. Johnstons Dr. Kehoe .-