Word: radiumator
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...will explain to the audience in simple terms the meaning of the electron, of micro-amperes, and the cathode rays. The properties of radium and uranium with their mysterious emanations, which man is as yet totally unable to control, will also be discussed at length and a demonstration will be offered of the versatility of vacuum tubes as the electric eye, the electric ear, and the electric touch...
...five-year cures. Of the total 7,990 have been cancer of the womb, 8,051 cancer of the breast, 1,506 cancer of the mouth and lip, 1,124 cancer of the skin, 2,067 cancer of the colon and rectum. The knife, x-ray and radium effected these cures because the patients reported and their physicians recognized the cancers before much destruction had occurred. This was the point which the surgeons wanted impressed on everyone. Dr. Robert Battey Greenough of Boston, who later in the week was elected 1934 president of the College, presided over the symposium...
...multiply in some cases to as much as1,000,000 per cu. mm. Overproduction comes from the blood-making (hematopoietic) elements of the spleen, marrow and lymph glands. Death invariably results-for acute cases within three months. Chronic cases may hang on for five years or longer. Radium and x-rays, arsenic or benzol cautiously administered for a time slow up the excess white cell production. Transfusion of normal blood has little effect, at least in leukemic children...
...been electrocuted. Wilmer Stultz, flyer who carried Amelia Earhart on her first trip across the Atlantic, was drunk, his brain subsequently proved to Toxicologist Gettler, when he killed himself and two passengers in a Long Island crash. Eben McBurney Byers. the Pittsburgh industrialist who died after prolonged drinking of radium water (TIME. April 11. 1932). "took the stuff," said Dr. Gettler. "for rejuvenation. He was a good man. He gave it to his friends. At first you feel fine. It bucks you up, for maybe six months. Then we get ready to put parts of you in a frame...
...primordial atom and that this atom exploded with such force that we still see some of the smoke going away. And ever since that original disintegration, matter has been breaking up into lighter and simpler substances. We are still in time to see this wonderworld, for we still have radium that has not completely extinguished into dull substances like lead and helium...