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Marck 13t 1959 xWmeth X. 4W.hs X.D. President and Dean of the lFatau?r.ty Xed.lea3. College of South Carolina 16 Lucas Street Charleston 16, South Carclina, Dear Kenneth s Attached is check #626j, covering your e*enses eAA honomium in cannecticra with attending the last meeting of the Advisory Surd. Thank you fcsr sending cua the posta3.l card and the eapy of yxxw letter to *. Car~e,rj who has been urging the card's use with lavmakex=a in South Carolim. It Just goes to vrave that the rabid viewpoint on tobacco serves the purposes of people in all Valk* of 1ifeo and is not limited to any one fied d of endeavor. I had a letter from Bill Rienhoff containing ga,.~c.Vapha~, which. I tb:.-,& you wil3l f iud Wtere"Jugt. "It is interesting that in the flue epidemic Of 19I7-18 the flue was cause3d by a virus infection with seeondary Ineldeme of streptococcus and stapbylococcus. Tfa.a w-irw ixfeotion w" the primary cause of the disease and of course damawA the lungs of'uzAM Mnt'bers of humrs be:trgs both in the Army dbroad, andd in the United States. As you :€aowd, the mortality was quite h3gh. In ftet,, so high that we could not get csskets to bury them in Mury3.an:d.. I went thrmh that and know whereof I speak. Dr. Ma.3.ton Winternitz 'Am then Professor of Patlalaa b&ro and later at Wa, and Dw.n of Yale Vadiaa7. Sebwl, a Yw7 prom.i:nenit and wel7.4aKnm mn. He im still &3.ive. A year w he postul.ated the same theory that virus 3n:'eatedd lungs and Oat, epidemic was a probable cause of a high percentage of ca=er of the lung in later years. Mq' father vrote a book on virus Infection* producing eanc+er., a~dd as you know there is agres.t deal of vork and discussion on this avenue of approach today.

tenaeth M. Lynr:h, X.D« • 2 " March 13., 1959 "I personally feel that this probable cause of cancer of the lung vhether directly due to the virus or to the eell damage caused by It beam3ng aL target for aome carainagetaict meterials which otherwise would got afteet anorma.1. *el3., m,y be found to p1ay a very Isportaub role to tho cause of cancer of the lwa8, partieulwly since It seems to mo in, the last four or five years the instance of carcinoma of tba: luog 'tAs reached a pla:teau, which has remained. aanstantx and in spite of more eigarette emoking! is not mw in the I am sbill a Ut coraerne.d over some of the things tbat Yappened last buafty, an8a will welcome an opportunity to talk to you about them in the mar. futuxe. Regards, tY . .i. . Hoyt Executive Secretary WTHf ek ewl.