July 5, 1944

Dr. T. Addis

Stanford University

School of Medicine

2398 Sacramento Street

San Francisco, California

Dear Tom:

I have not heard anything about action by the Committee on Medical Research on our proposals for contract, and I am beginning to think about what action should be taken in case that the proposals were turned down. Failure to get our contract would not be a very serious matter to us, since our part of the work is a small one, but you would be seriously handicapped if your contract were not extended.

Do you not think that it would be worth while to see what you can do about getting support for your work for a few years from some Foundation? I judge that you have no hope for further support from The Rockefeller Foundation. Why don't you try the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation? Perhaps there is some other foundation also which would be interested in what you are doing.

If you were to approach the Markle Foundation, I think that you should emphasize the matter of getting information which would be of value in preventing renal damage and in the treatment of nephritis. I think that the work which you have planned for the immediate future has enough promise of results which could be applied clinically to interest the Markle Foundation. You would not of course need so much money from them as from the CMR, since the University would not charge overhead. In fact, I feel strongly that with the record of achievement which you have made you should expect the University to put up part of the cost of your investigation.

This brings me to a question which has caused me some concern recently - namely, why do you not set out upon a crusade for your method of treatment of glomerular nephritis? Do you not think that it is wrong to allow clinicians throughout the country to continue to prescribe a treatment which you know to be deleterious? Would not the publication of your book be part of this crusade? I think that, even though your book were to published, some journal articles dealing with certain aspects of the problem would also be worth while. Of course, I may be wrong in thinking that information about your treatment is not readily available to clinicians - I do not know to what extent clinicians now use your method, and to what extent the opposed method.

Cordially yours,

Linus Pauling

LP:jr