RADIUM AND ITS THERAPEUTIC EFFECTS

Radium: Its Therapeutic Uses in General Practice

This little book gives a short account of cases treated by the author with radium in the hope that it may draw the attention of the general practitioner and student to the conditions in which this valuable therapeutic agent may be of use. The first portion of the work is devoted to a short summary of the physical problems connected with radium, including apparatus, screening, methods of applica...

Radium and Some of Its Physical and Therapeutic Properties

In 1895 the discovery of X-rays by Rontgen led others to wonder if invisible radiations of a similar nature could be produced by other means than a Crookes' tube. In the following year Monsieur Henri Becquerel, in Paris, experimented in this direction, and by good fortune he first tried a salt of uranium. He took a photographic plate and wrapped it in black paper, which completely shielded it f...

The Therapeutic Uses of Radium

^ dEsire first to express my appreciation of the compliment Paid rns in inviting me to lecture before the Bristol MedicoCh" lrurgical Society, and to voice the very keen and heartfelt P^asure I experience in meeting once again my former *eachers and fellow-students. I spent six of the happiest ^ears ?f my life at the old Bristol Medical School, first as Sclent and later as Medical Tutor, and ma...

Radium and Its Surgical Application

manner that a medical practitioner will have not only no difficulty in following the author, but also will positively enjoy reading him. The author first of all deals with the physics of radium: next the apparatus and means of application, then the sensitivity of the tissues to radium, and. proceeds to deal with malignant growths in various situations, which are suitable for radium therapy. The...

Radium Therapy: Its Physical Aspects