October 27, 1938.

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lire Me FP. Ahearn, Director,

Depart Physical Pdueation and Athletics,
Kansas State College, :
Manhattan, Kansase

Tear Mikes

ity friend! Any time you write me I Imow it ie fron
one Irishmen to ancther.s. And the thing I like about you, Mike,
you put your cards on the table and you do not beat around the .
bush. You may beat the dickens out of the bush, but I iike the
way you do it.

Yes, sir, I will be very happy to see young lite
Peterkin. The first thing I would like for you to ascertain from
him is if he has had his teeth looked over by & competent dentist
with a view of locking for any gramulom or carious spots in them.
Now, Mike, if I get too technical, you just tell me that I stated
as @ shanty Irishman and I can't get above that, and tell me not
to be highehat with yous 3 |

But I went to be sure that his teeth are all rights

through lymphatic glands in the area in which reside the brachial
plexus or the nerve supply of the arme Thet is why bad teeth or
tonsils bother pitchers or fellow: who depend so much on their

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Wow the tonsils would be the next things Plense hive
these two things looked inte before you send him up. I always
skeletal fremeworke Also, i ce to imow if he has had any

shoulders either off « horse or out of an automobile, In other
words, I want a history of his case before the boy up because —
I can do much more for him in a short time by having e imouwledge
of his personal historye

   
 

Without going into any criticiam of anybody, I have
never thought of any nerve being pinched. So fer as the boy
suffering from rheumatien is coneerned, undoubtedly he is, because
rheumatism is nothing but lack of vitality in tissue due to an in-
proper nerve or blood supply being distributed to the pcint in

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