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Sc h o o l o p Hy g ie n e a n d Pu b l ic SIS NORTH WOLF'S STREET Ba l t imo r e --s. Ma r y l a n d He a l t h DEPARTMENT OF PHYSIOLOGICAL HYGIENE JllIX 20, 194S Dr, Dobert Xehoe Kettering Laberatcry College of Decile Ine Vn: varsity of Cine mabi Cincinnati 13, chio Dear Dr. Dehoe: Thank you g o much for your most comprehensive answer to my letter regard ing porphyrinuria. This is exactly the >unt, and I hast opinion I had expressed myself based on your own publications. However, X felt that I should write you since I had been, requested to do so. X am sorry to have bothered you with this but certainly appreciate your help. >la in the case can make no vei * 3G quite impossible * s to absorb enough gasoline to induce Test regards, of the word, this is je followed a large period of years (in Sincerely yours, 3 find the slightest of lead, in their - nnna hi, laetjer. So. D. .assistant Professor Physiological Hygiene lied tetraethyl lead 2f any manner in which such, and therefore the hypothetical pline containing not D-w : egw yl lead per gallon of batteries at service of lead exposure. It in the repair of to lead compounds. is also true that ining Company could - the other hand, the not necessarily have comments, which might yuriuu u j . uiu.o to lead during some --, ---- - .... ..... .egorically, is that tlie occupational factor of handling leaded gasoline should be utterly excluded * I might point out in this regard that there lias never been a case of lead poisoning from the handling of leaded gasoline at service stations in the history of the industry. In my opinion, there never will be. It may be pertinent also to , point out that the absorption of tetraethyl lead,even in significant quantities, has never been known to have any influence on the blood. Stippling lias never been seen in this association, and anemia in relation to absorption does not occur to any measurable degree* We have not studied the porphyrins in this relationship, despite