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We also welcome your input and views, comments and corrections on articles. After some enquiries from callers and some verbally reported success with the homoeopathic remedy for lead poisoning, the taking of lead, I'd be very interested in more information. If you know of any cases, please send a written record including blood lead levels before and after homoeopathic treatment. The theme for our next issue is Lead and Women, Women and the Environment.

Body burden of lead in ancient people uncontaminated by industrial lead (left); typical American (middle); people with overt clinical lead poisoning (right). Each dot represents 40 µg of lead. [Reference: "Measuring Lead Exposure in Infants, Children and Other Sensitive Populations". Publ. National Academy of Sciences, Feb 1993. Source: Patterson et al., adapted from NRC, 1980.]