Word: martland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...point the way legally. There is even less precedent to point the way medically. The Disease. From the Greek, necrosis (making dead) has come its ghoulish name, radium necrosis. The Cause. The paint contained radium and mesothorium salts which continually shoot out Alpha, Beta, Gamma rays. Dr. Harrison S. Martland, Chief Medical Examiner of Essex County found 95% of these to be Alpha rays. Most of the paint the girls swallowed was eliminated through the intestinal tract; a small but daily accumulating amount was absorbed; deposited in the bones, spleen, liver. While the girls worked, played, slept, the paint shot...
...department although her left elbow cannot move and she wears a brace from neck to hips. Twenty operations have been performed on her jaw. The Treatment. None. There is no way known to medical science of removing the radium from the bones of these doomed young women. Said Dr. Martland: "The deposits can be removed only by cremating the bone and then boiling the ash in hydrochloric acid." Keen observers suggested that the bodies of all the unconscious martyrs be exhumed, given to hospitals and laboratories for study, that this great tragedy might add its contribution to scientific knowledge. Newspapers...