Notes on Radium

Notes on Cases Treated with Radium

Notes on the Effects and Use of Radium

Lymphosarcoma by Radium: Notes on the Treatment of a Case of

By Dawson F. D. Turner, M.D., F.R.C.P., Physician in Charge of Radium Department, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh A male, aged 65, was recommended to me by Professor Alexis Thomson for radium treatment in June 1911. He was suffering from a recurrent small-celled lymphosarcoma, which was inoperable. The first operation was performed on 21st August 1909. The tumour was then situated in the axilla, and...

Radium

This little volume deals briefly and completely with the properties of radium both from a therapeutic and physical point of view. Briefly dealing with the observations on the various phenomena which lead to the discovery of radium itself, the author passes to the physical properties of the element, and goes into the differentiation between the alpha, beta and gamma rays. The relationship existi...

Radium

publication of an up-to-date manual in a concise and convenient form, which should be in the hands of every practitioner. The more widely such knowledge is spread amongst the profession, the sooner will the day arrive when public opinion backed by the medical profession will demand a radium-institute in this country. Until that day arrives practitioners can only equip themselves to advise their...