I am very glad to hear from you again and I am Interested in knowing that you are getting Into some work on lead* I gladly comply with ^our request to send along some reprints, and I am pending you one series of six articles bound together on "The llomal Absorption and Excretion of Dead", of which my supply is almost entirely ex hausted* I think it will be useful for you to have a copy of this and so I am stretching a point to supply you with a somewhat battered copy* However it is the boat I can do# We have carried on our work here beyond the point represented in these reprints, but I have not had either the time or opportunity to put together and publish our recent results# However you will find of considerable interest, I believe, the reprint on "An Appraisal of the Lead Hasards Associated with the Distribution and Use of Gasoline Containing Tetraethyl Lead* Part II - The Occupational Lead Exposure of Filling Station Attendants and Garage Mechanics", because, so far as I know, it gives the details of the first adequate metabolic studies on lead in the normal human subject* We are carrying this experimentation further In some studies of lead in gestin on human subjects.

Including lead.

Today and I gasoline containing tetraethyl pr d ay th e re 's a special featu re fo r ; r r a fans only in the W orld-Tele- i lead was reported by a Univer-1* and Sun.

Curtis, I am sure, and probably will be no surprise to you, that I feel a fairly heavy burden of professional responsibility for the safety of the practices of the petroleum and automotive industries in relation to tetraethyl lead or its homologues.

We are more interested in keeping lungs free from poisonous du and gases, his bones free fro lead, his liver free from chlor nated solvents, etc.

Tetraethyl Lead - T, B.

B oth m en ..........e...x..t.r..em ely p_o d - tiv e o n th e stan d today th a t ``as far'ias 1 know there has never been a case of lead poisoning contracted front tetraethyl gasoline on record" a n d th a t th e lead!

Tetraethyl Lead - T, B.

By "LEADED GASOLINE" we mean any gasoline that has a tetraethyl lead content.

By "LEADED GASOLINE" we mean any gasoline that has a tetraethyl lead content.

F o r a tim e, in the e a rly period of th is rather unique program of m ed ical su p erv isio n , we w ere fa ir ly rigid in our req u irem en ts, sin ce anything that developed in a m an w as altogeth er too lik ely to be blam ed upon tetraethyl lead .

TEPP (tetraethyl pyrophosphate)............

McNab then stated that they would be interested in being brought upto-date on the subject of alkyl lead compounds lighter than tetraethyl.

McNab then stated that they would be interested in being brought upto-date on the subject of alkyl lead compounds lighter than tetraethyl.

My reason for doing this lies in the fact that the information which we are obtaining seems to me to be of the greatest significance to the tetraethyl lead industry, and I would like for many reasons to have co-operative interest in and support of this work.