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                         20 October 1993

Editor, Nature
London, U.K.
through Nature, Washington

Dear Sir,

  On 24 Dec. 1992 I sent directly to your London address a short
piece entitled "Fraud in medicine - doctoring the nubers."  To date
I have received no indication of its receipt or disposition by you,
and therefore assume it may have been lost in the mail. 
Accordingly, I am resubmitting it, updated with primary reference
to Utz, etal., Nature 364, 243-246 (1993).

  Thank you for your kind consideration.

                    Sincerely yours,
                         /s/
                    Stuart Hale Shakman

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