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That the blood of cancerous people is less acid than the blood of normal people is well-known. A proper balance between hydrogen (acid) ions and hydroxyl (alkaline) ions is essential to health and normal cell growth. Too much alkalinity lets cells grow wild. That is one reason why radium and x-rays are used to treat cancer. They make blood acidulous. If doctors could easily and quickly tell the blood's hydrogen ion strength, they could use proper therapeutic means to prevent and treat cancer...
Died. Dr. Sabin A. von Sochocky, 45, inventor of luminous radium paint; from aplastic anaemia due to radium poisoning; in Orange...
Inadvertently, by bringing a formula for making radium paint from Austria to the U. S., Sabin A. von Sochocky, physician and chemist, brought along the death that took him last week...
Radioactive dust and emanations entered his system. They attacked his bones, prevented his marrow from making red blood cells. Aplastic anemia developed. Sojourn in high altitudes and 13 blood transfusions were useless. To void the radium that was in him would require, he once figured, 3,520 years. But eight years was all that he lived after he discovered what was wrong with...
...Hamburg, where the German Congress of Natural Science was meeting last week, the men there cheered mightily when they heard reports on the Fischer radium-platinum alloy...