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COPY ECMoEnRsYulRti.ngHAIYnHdUuR3sTt,riMal.DH.,ygPihe.nDi.st Columbus, OhI July 3, 1935 Miss Rose Moriarty Hanna Building Cleveland, Ohio . My dear Miss Moriarty: Ainftheirsmcyaesex,amanindataionseaorfchMrw. hio^nm e anmdadeof inatlol othfethreeladtaitoansahtiphanodf lead .poisoning and gangrene of the extremities, I have come to the pcooinscolnuisniognin (h1)is thwaotrkMart. ^th^HaTHimlHk^epnfcaRdolaledr eBfienairtinegeCxpomospuarney, toandlea(d2) that such lead poisoning aggravated, if it did not originally cause, the capillary and nervous disease followed by gangrene in his lower extremities. I am glad to say that both Dr. Curtis and Dr. Wiseman, of the Department of Medical and Surgical Research at Ohio State University, appear to concur with me in these findings, I have collected a number of precedential instances grouped as follows: Lead poisoning From Apparently Insignificant Exposures Lead Poisoning and the Capillaries Lead Poisoning and the Nervous System Lead Poisoning and Gangrene I am enclosing two copies of each of the above memoranda herewith, swiiothn. the suggestion that the originals be duly filed with the Commis My personal examination of Mr. and noting some of the dis crepancies in the histories whicnhavebe en made i nhi scase by the Ford Hospital and The Mayo Clinic, and what Mr. told me - a ll of the@e lead me to believe that it would be useless to try to establish the fact that lead poisoning caused his affliction since come of the statements indicate that he had a vascular disease affect ing his extremities prior to his known exposure to lead, but from the findings made by the Ford Hospital in 1928 and the report sent to us aantdthbaetfortiemge,antghreenree aisppneoareddo;u'btthtahtahtehecohualdd lheaavde pgooitsteonninigt firnom192tn8e type of work he was doing, and that such lead poisoning aggravated the vascular and nervous Condition which he already had, bringing on thhaevegbaneegnrenfoeu,ndandn,ecoefssacoryu.rse, predisposing to the amputations which z siiall be willing to testify accordingly should this case come to a legal hearing. Yours very truly, (Signed) EMERY R. HAYYUR3T K T 0016685