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...dangerous practice to get into, criminals being what they are. But it is so interesting. . . ." Dr. C. Everett Field, Director of the Radium Institute of New York was receiving newsgatherers at his laboratory. "Here," he said "look at this blue dish. This was a yellowish glass. We used it in our radium work. Gradually the color changed from yellow to this beautiful blue." He showed them other glass that had been rid of ugly colors and rendered clear blue-white. He showed them diamonds turned in a few days from low-priced jaundiced stones to gems of apparently the first...
...Field's medical confreres were vexed at his publicity. The explanation: radium activates chemical processes that would otherwise occur very slowly if at all. Chemicals coloring the hard carbon-crystals of diamond are oxidized by radium in salts or even weak solutions. Cost ratio: a $100 yellow stone (½ karat) was changed to a $700 blue-white stone in four days, using $8,000 worth (100 milligrams) of radium. The less radium, the longer the time necessary. A difficulty: for speediest effects, the gems, and hands of the experimenters, must be directly exposed to the radium, risking burns...
Engaged. Irene Curie, daughter of Mme. Curie; to Dr. Frederick Joliot, also a radium scientist. Romance began with experiments in the Curie laboratories...
...daughter of Poet Nathaniel Hawthorne, widow of Novelist George Parsons Lathrop (died 1898) had established this institution a few years after taking the veil (1899) to provide a place where destitute cancer victims could die in peace. No efforts to cure were made. "So long as they fretted about radium and operations, they were miserable," Dr. John L. Shells, physician to the institution, said only last week. "It seems to me that radium makes them worse, unless it is applied very early. . . .We let them alone and just keep them comfortable, and sometimes they live for years." Mother Alphonsa always...
Cervix Uteri. Grant E. Ward of the Howard A. Kelly Hospital, Baltimore, explained to the A.M.A. Dallas visitors the radium treatment developed there for this type of cancer in the last 18 years. He described the apparatus used and the principle underlying the technique employed. In many cases radium has improved the patients, both symptomatically and physically...