UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO

 

 

BERKELEY * DAVIS * IRVINE * LOS ANGELES ¢ RIVERSIDE * SAN DIEGO * SAN FRANCISCO SANTA BARBARA * SANTA CRUZ

 

 

 

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94143
CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE

February 14, 1979

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Dr. Joshua Lederburg .
President oe a
Rockefeller University a ee
New York, NY 10021

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Dear Josh:

In answer to your question about the "Comroe-Dripps Report" on how the
"top ten clinical advances came about", there are several ways of getting
copies. First, since the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute financed oe
part of the study, they agreed to make single copies available without charge Hacked
to anyone who wants it and writes to the Depuey=—Deneesex,. NHUBI. Another Al [ee chic
way is to write to me, but as I look at my shelf I have only about a dozen 0
copies left. I will be glad to distribute those to people who really want °
it until they are gone.

The other way is by writing to the National Technical Information Service,
U.S. Department of Commerce, Springfield, Va., 22161. They have published
our report in two parts. One contains, the written report plus the complete
bibliography of the 663 key artici8é ») The GPO sells this for $8.00. The
second part, which is a much thicker book (about 435 pages) contains all of
the chronological tables of events for each of 130-some bodies of knowledge
that were needed before the 10 clinical advances in cardiovascular pulmonary
disease could become possible. The GPO charges 414.00 for this.

The report is not available through any book publisher and for this
reason has not been advertised except for a 2-page article that appeared in
Federation Proceedings in 1977 written by Dr. Robert Ringler, who was then
Deputy Director of the NHLBI (xee atlactsd|

My main task at the moment (or I should say for the next 2 years) is to
write a book for the general reading public with the goal of letting them
know a little bit more about how discoveries actually do come about in bio-
medical science. I hope that this would be finished and available in 1980
and published by one of the big publishing companies in the United States to
ensure wider distribution.

  

Juliys H. Comroe, Jr.

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