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Dr. Robert A. Conard
Medical Research Center
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Upton, Lon: Island, New York
April 17, 1961
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Dear Bob:
that anorexia, nausea, and a few cases
1958 ome man received a single
of 130 rads.
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I om quite happy to accept the
ap natives.
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of womiting did occur among the
In our accident case of
He was a man of better
than average intelligence, and he knew perfectly vell what had happened.
I questioned him very carefully but in his case he apparently had none of
these symptoms, nor did he have any weakness or easy fatiguability later
on.
I have not referred back to the Oak Ridge cases of 1958 to determine
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what they hed in the way of syaptoms
@ comparable dose level, but I
know that Marshell EBrucer felt that much of the nausea and vomiting they
encountered vas emotional in origin, and the weakness he describes could
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perhaps be attributed to the fact
the men were hospitalized, our
mean was not. From this I think ve can safely conc.iude that with doses
below 200 rads there may or may not be symptoms, and if they do exist
they will not be severe or incapacitating. This is the sort of fact
that the military likes to get hold of because it may be very useful to
them sometine.
I won't try to comment on the eccentricities of the white counts except
to extend my sympathy in your confusion. Here we esem to be making
increased use of the Coulter courter for both routine and experimental
studies, which of course reflects the laziness of the idle rich, but I
must confess that the results seas more consistent and reproducible.
Very sincerely yours,
ORIGINAL SIGNEE BY THGMAS L. SHIPMAN, M. BD
THOMAS L. SHIPMAN, M.D.
Health Division Leader
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