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HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL
23 SHATTUCK STREET

ARTHUR T. HERTIG, M.D. Boston 15, Mass May..31,..1961
SHATTUCK PROFESSOR
OF PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY

Dr. Joshua Lederberg

Department of Medical Genetics
Stanford University School of Medicine
Palo Alto, California

Dear Dr. Lederberg:

I am very much interested in your movie "The Effect of
Antibiotics on Bacteria", which I saw listed in the "Pathology
Film Reviews" (Laboratory Investigation, 1960: 9, 535). I
should also add that I was a little shocked at my own ignorance
and oversight, because last year I published a rather extensive
study of cell death, without mentioning bacterial death. I was
aware of this lacuna, of course, and I do plan to make up for
it in some future review; however, had I known that even a
movie was available, I would probably have succumbed to the
necessity of being more "grlindlich".

 

I am taking the liberty of sending you the paper here enclosed, NS
You will find it very ...mammalian, I am afraid, and very pervaded »
with pathologic folklore; however, I will say in my defense that in
our particular field a review of this kind was long overdue.

To return to your movie, I would be very glad to see it for
my own interest, but I would also like to use it in a course
which I am going to give this summer as a new venture ("Introduction
to General Pathology", a course especially planned for investigators
in the biological field who do not have a medical background).
Ideally, I would like to see and "rehearse" the movie early in June,
and actually show it in the course later, between June 26 and July 15.

If the movie is really available, as I hope, I will let you
decide how to go about it; the simplest solution would be (for us)
to have it now, and return it on July 16; but if you do not wish
to part with it for so long a time, we could see it now, return
it, and ask for it again a few days in advance of the actual
projection.

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If you have any publications, in the form of reprints,
or references, which would illuminate me further in the use
of the movie, I would be very grateful indeed.

With anticipated thanks, and looking forward to hearing
from you soon,

I remain,
Sincerely yours,
Guido Majno, M.D.

Assistant Professor
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