The Therapeutic Uses of Radium

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...

Advances in radiation therapy.

the discovery of x-rays by Roentgen and radium by the Curies, the first patient was treated with therapeutic x-rays. During the first few decades of the 20th century, the use of radiation increased significantly. The earliest uses of therapeutic radiation often involved treating gynecologic malignancies. Over the next one hundred years, radiation therapy became one of the integral treatment app...

Medical Research Council. Medical Uses of Radium: Summary of Reports from Research Centres for 1935

Medical Research Council. 'Medical Uses of Radium. Summary of Reports from Research Centres for 1934'

Medical Research Council. Special Report Series, No. 232. 'Medical Uses of Radium. Summary of Reports from Research Centres for 1937.' 1938