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When Dr. Kelly cured a woman of cancer with radium in 1904, he was called a quack. Years later his own cheeks were scarred where, with radium, the physician had healed himself. For the Howard A. Kelly Hospital, which he founded in 1892 next to his home on Eutaw Place, he acquired the world's largest private stock of radium-over $2,000,000 worth. Dr. Kelly remained an innovator into old age -in 1932 he wrote a book advocating electrosurgery. Paying tribute to him on his 75th birthday, Dr. Welch wrote from his deathbed: "You did more than...
Discoverers of the method of isolating eka-iodine are Dr. Walter Minder, director of Bern's Radium Institute, and Dr. Alice Leigh-Smith, British student of the late great Mme. Curie. In a burst of international patriotism they named the new element anglohelvetium after their native lands, as Mme. Curie named polonium for her Poland...
...theory that the energy comes from contraction of the sun's mass (in effect from the falling inward of all its matter) is also inadequate because it would explain only 30 million years of sunniness. Even radioactivity, the spontaneous disintegration of atoms such as uranium and radium, will not answer: the sun would have to be composed entirely of uranium...
Occupational Cancers, which are caused by external environmental agents such as X rays, radium rays, ultraviolet rays, certain complex tar and benzine compounds, hundreds of other carcinogenic (cancer-causing) chemicals. Farmers and sailors may develop skin cancer through long exposure to the ultraviolet rays of sunlight. Cotton spinners in Britain, who are constantly exposed to the carcinogenic mineral oil used in lubricating the spindles, may develop "mule spinners' cancer" of the scrotum. Obviously, said Dr. Cramer, occupational cancer is a "preventable disease." Social Cancers, an expression coined by Dr. Cramer, which include cancers of the esophagus, stomach, upper digestive...
Somehow this egg burst, spattering stars and whirling nebulae in all directions while matter broke down into simpler & simpler forms. ("We are still in time to see this wonder-world," said Lemaitre, "for we still have radium that has not completely extinguished into dull substances like lead and helium...