“Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem.”
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When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.
Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.
I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.
When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills.
