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...authors were the 54 foremost cancer combatants, the world's leading specialists in cancer pathology, biology, surgery, X-ray therapy, radium therapy. They wrote in tribute to a great teacher, Professor James Ewing of Cornell Medical School, Manhattan, the man who spent ten years writing Neoplastic Diseases, prime textbook on Cancer. What the 54 authorities wrote comprises a compendium of all current knowledge of Cancer, its causes, treatment, prevention. Because Professor Ewing has always taught that the specialists must depend on the family doctor to discover early signs of cancer, this issue of the Annals of Surgery will...
Cancer is a supplement to Neoplastic Diseases. It contains four sections: Cancer in its General Relations, Cancer Research, Regional Cancer, Radium and Roentgen Ray Therapy of Cancer...
...Lauritsen, is the most powerful ever demonstrated. Dr. William David Coolidge in General Electric Laboratories, Schenectady, has been experimenting for the past year with a 900,000-volt tube not yet perfected for demonstration. Hospitals today use a 200,000-volt tube. Five billion dollars worth of radium (20 Ib.) would be necessary to produce gamma rays equal in power to Dr. Millikan's X-rays. The entire U. S. medical profession today possesses only four million dollars worth of radium. Practical use of the Caltech apparatus has not yet been demonstrated. Before it is used on human beings...
...Clarks are one of the very few couples who jointly have attained scientific eminence. Another such couple are the Dicks of Chicago (Dr. George Frederick, 49, and Dr. Gladys Henry), inventors of the Dick Test for scarlet fever. Most famed of such scientific couples were, of course, the radium Curies...
While miners and doctors were trying to find radium in Ontario rocks, Mme Curie's followers in Paris predicted that she will soon have another startling discovery to announce. Meanwhile she sat patiently in her tiny laboratory in the Latin Quarter in Paris, working from ten to 20 hr. a day with uranium oxide to find out more about that queer radioactive family which begins with uranium and ends as lead. Since she knows most about radium she is now studying uranium and polonium, which she discovered in 1898 and named for her native Poland...