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to earn his living, and a reasonably good one for his general state in society, until he had this accident. Thereafter, he can't remember anything. He can't do anything. He can't reason. Now we must conclude that there is a causal relationship between the accident and the present state of mental disability.”

I recited, at Roosevelt's suggestion, several other cases of that sort - enough so that it gave Roosevelt verification from a medical man's point of view that my diagnosis was correct. That is, the medical man that the insurance companies employed were not always testifying independently, but were seeking to preserve the interests of the insurance company in keeping the claim down to a small amount.

Nicoll did try to get after the county medical societies, particularly with regard to these shysters, of whom we found this nest in Brooklyn, some out in Queens, and a considerable number in the Buffalo area, who were quite clearly rigging up claims and helping men to rig up a claim of disability, or keeping the wound open. The worst thing they did was to put a little chemical in it that would keep the wound from healing. They'd go to see the doctor the day before they came to the Department of Labor for a hearing and examination and it would be all red and inflamed when they got there.

We finally put a detective on it. We didn't have any