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surgery on the 12th. He was monitored by Dr's Byron Hall and Dr. Lim. He wasa 16
year old named
_or
and he died on May15, 1948.
Notes on tissue assays
Letter from Scott to Crowley re excreta from patient; they were to be
broughtto Crocker from UCSF.
folder "RE-19” pertains to the human experiments on inhaled zirconium and
includes:
photographs
notes for JGH about procedures during the experiments; gas was inhaled
through theleft nostril and drawninto the lung, then exhaled through the mouth
assays from KGS
graph
A report was published pertaining to the inhaled zirconium, entitled "Studies on the
Inhalation of Fissionable Materials and Fission Products and Their Subsequent Fate in
Rats and Man” (K.G. Scott, H.C. Lanz, Dorothy Axelrod, Josephine Crowley, and J.G.
Hamilton). The Zr8° aerosol was administered to one human subject and to rats. In the
human,it was inhaled through a short rubber tube placedin theleft nostril, and 100 cm3
of argon containing the aerosol was withdrawn for the assay. (p. 89 of report, foundin
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Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Archives and Records Office
Human Radiation Experiments Search and Retrieval Project
Electronic DocumentTitle: Durbin
Anna Berge Research Notes
April 4, 1994
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file drawer three of Durbin's records.)