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Mrs. Lasker:

It may well be, because women on the whole live longer, also has some effect on the clotting mechanism, as is shown by the fact that if you are also taking anti-coagulants, you must reduce the dose if you're going to take an effective dose Also it may be that women who are taking would have to take less or less atromid because of the relationship to clothing or bleeding. So this is not figured out yet.

Q:

This was really an important --

Mrs. Lasker:

-- oh, it's a very important thing to get done. Dr. Shannon and Dr. Fredricks on are not practically oriented to getting practical results for people, which is really considered quite “unrefined” by them, especially Shannon.

Q:

But this, isn't this an element that you can always --

Mrs. Lasker:

-- yes, you can't always get around Shannon because Shannon Just fixes it so that it's impossible to do it. Even if you get him the money he doesn't order it to go forward, he orders it to be stopped. The only reason we have





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