TY - JOUR T1 - FOr whose benefit do we write? AU - Wells EF Y1 - 1899/04/15 N1 - 10.1001/jama.1899.02450420044017 JO - Journal of the American Medical Association SP - 836 EP - 836 VL - XXXII IS - 15 N2 - My Dear Doctor:  —A medical friend of mine recently mentioned in a complimentary way an article you lately read before the Chicago Society of Internal Medicine, entitled "Pulmonary Tuberculosis."I am desirous of securing a scientific clinical report on paper on the therapeutic use of —. This preparation is, as you all know, ethic and scientific, and has been used extensively in phthisis. I would like an article of about a thousand words, and am willing to pay you for your careful observation and report. Of course I want the privilege of publishing the paper in the medical press. If you have the time and inclination to do this work for me, and need literature and samples, I will take pleasure in sending them to you. Thanking you in advance for an early reply, I am, very truly yours, -.Sincerely, SN - 0002-9955 M3 - doi: 10.1001/jama.1899.02450420044017 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.02450420044017 ER -