I have never seen foot drop in lead poisoning in the adult.

No cases of poisoning have developed in the course of this work.

Experimental animals treated with Ethyl Gasoline have failed to accumulate lead in their tissues even after months of such treatment* Furthermore a large number of men who have handled Ethyl Gaso line for a period of years, have not only failed to yield a case of lead poisoning, but also fall to show evidences of lead storage in their bodies.

Wo one ever believed at any time Lhat an Individual could be poisoned by the Inhalation of lead from this source within, a few hours.

(I am assuming, of course, that the fuel is leaded gasoline-} The only possible manner in which cne could absorb significant quantities of lead, would be under circumstances in which he was exposed regularly over a long period of time to exhaust gases containing the maximum, amount of lead, so diluted as to make it possible for him to sur- vive the risk of catbon monoxide poisoning, ho one ever believed at any time Lhat an individual could be poisoned by the inhalation of lead from this source within, a few hours.

:#:le tried, in & series of patients, to find the value of sodium thiosulphate in tho ireuimPBt*ox lead poisoning.

j Children react rather violent ly to lead poisoning while it merely makes adults sick.

In no Instance have we been able to find abnormal quantities of lead in such tissues if a period of one year to eighteen months had elapsed between.the'cessation of exposure and the death of the patient* Thus it Is not to be expected in this man*s case that any large quantity of lead would be found in the tissues* The diagnosis of 0005 35$ N 7442 2 lead poisoning can not be made, therefore, from autopsy material unless there is a reasonably close time relationship between the period of lead absorption and the time of death* I am making these points clear because the medico*legal aspects of such analytical data are not always fully understood# I 3hould go on to say that with the clinical record with which you have provided me, and with the data on the necropsy, the diagnosis of lead poisoning seems to me to be untenable* There is no definite evidence that this man absorbed con siderable quantities of lead and for reasons which I have pointed out.

He called on one doctor, whose name is not yet known, who stated he did not haye lead poisoning.

Bryant: In response to your letter of October JO, I am sending you under spearate cover a reprint of the Lead Poisoning Symposium referred to In Dr.

ihank you for your letter of January lSth about our artlole on lead poisoning.

Bryant: In response to your letter of October JO, I am sending you under spearate cover a reprint of the Lead Poisoning Symposium referred to In Dr.

Behrman, to be suffering from lead poisoning.

Bower: It has come to my attention through somewhat circuitous channels that two men, French Canadians, father and son, were zander your care in the hospital apparently suffering from chronic lead poisoning as the result of contact with clothing repeatedly cleaned with gasoline containing lead.

He called on one doctorj whose name is not yet known, who stated he did not haye lead poisoning.