Kehoe: I appreciate more than I can express to you the time and trouble you took in your letter of February 7 to answer mine of January 19 on the Byers and Lord article on lead poisoning.

Lead poisoning is as you know ana of the most dangerous forms of toxication Isiowa. .

I feel sure that, whatever 3.4L may do in ordinary cases of lead poisoning, in early cases of lead encephalopathy it m i l be life saving if used in large doses for a period of, say, ten days.

'e would also be grateful for a few copies of the "Lead Poisoning Symposium" of 1940, and as many copies as you can spare of "Exposure to Lead" of February 1947 I was in Switzerland last week.

A, 1948" in Proceedings of the Lead Hygiene Conference: one by GG Harrold and SF Meek, "Sol ubil it y and part icle size in lead poisoning," (13 pages) and a second by DR Johns, "The t reat ment of lead poisoning, past and present ," (15 pages).

e did not feel from th beginning that the employee had lead poison ing but having had the exposure and his family physician, la*.

Schnabel confirmed via telephone with the -writer this morning. 17 did not feel from the beginning that the employee had lead poison ing but havin^^d the exposure and his family physician, Dr.

Steiger, the concluding statement lias made that "his (the patient's) present symptoms are perfectly compatible with an organic brain syndrome due to lead poisoning, if there is definite evidence , ' *" T* "_ l _ '"'r _ -- .

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Joseph Lead Co.

RESEARCH ON LEAD POISONING YALE UNIVERSITY_______ The secretary then read a letter which he had received from Dr.

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How to go about protecting children from the long-time ef fects of lead poisoning 'with-this drug is, it seems to me, another matter, and oner'which ought to be seriously thought about.

Let me repeat that, while elation therapy is Just about all we have of ways of treating lead poisoning, it has not seen highly successful in combatting or prevent ing illness..

We receive a few patients suspeofeed of having lead poisoning each year and It happens that one such patient is in the ward at the present time.