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of medical care. Little success had been encountered in 

 trying to reconstruct the relationship between injury 

 and cause of injury. It was to fill such gaps that test 

 animals were taken to Bikini. However, the number 

 taken was kept to a minimum. 



Captain Draeger and his Executive Officer, Captain 

 Shields Warren (Navy Medical Corps) were well sup- 

 ported in their work. Starting with an important plan- 

 ning conference held in early January 1946, at the 

 Naval Medical Research Institution at Bethesda, Md., 

 full cooperation by many agencies was obtained. These 

 principal Arnw and Nav,y medical research agencies 

 helped: Arniy Chemical Warfare Service (including 

 the Biological Warfare Division), Army Medical 

 Corps, Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Naval 

 Medical Research IiLstitute. Also cooperating were the 

 National Institute of Health of the United States Pub- 

 lic Health Service, the United States Department of 

 Agriculture, the National Cancer Institute, the United 

 States Geological Survey, and various universities and 

 private research agencies. 



The BURLESON began taking aboard animals at 

 the end of May 1946, in San Francisco. The special 

 accommodations provided for the animals were found 

 to be very satisfactory. The ship began its westward 

 trip on June 1; she started long after the other ves- 

 sels, and made a fast run. The object, of course, was to 

 have the animals in the best possible condition at the 

 time of the first Test. 



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