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...discovered in its very early stages, it can be cured, at least death prevented, in the great majority of cases. Any suspicious lump should be called to the physician's attention at once. He has authentic knowledge of what can be done by medicaments, surgery, xray, radium, colloidal lead (TIME...
...From this survey it will be evident that the final solution of the cancer problem has not been reached and patients will still have to rely upon early diagnosis and prompt surgical treatment as at present for the most effective means of curing early cancer. Radium and X-ray still remain useful forms of treatment where surgery is not available, and colloidal lead seems to promise hope to others. But at present no final judgment can be rendered concerning its efficacy, nor does it seem likely that in the near future will any great improvement in its use be discovered...
Recently Parisians added a new and delectable connotation to one of the most famous of French names, Curie. In the world's eye this name conjures up the image of an austere, almost emaciated woman, Mme. Marie Curie, famed co-discoverer of radium. Last week an appreciative concert audience packed the Salle des Agricultures while the youngest (20-year-old) daughter of the great scientist made her début as a pianist...
Like the rays of radium, the Millikan Rays, wherever they are present in any quantity, have a sterilizing effect fatal to life. X-rays are absorbed by half an inch of lead. The Millikan Ray will pierce six feet of lead; it is the product of elements uniting with an energy charge 50 times as great as that evolved by any reaction known to the earth...
...when he did so), rang a bell-and disappeared when the lights went up. During his "presence," the observers beheld strange luminosities about the medium and a translucent material shape, like an arm, cold and clammy (said one) "as an eel's heel," was seen, measured (against a radium-painted board) and felt. Warned that violence to this "emanation" would seriously injure the entranced medium, none of those present employed the obvious investigatory stratagem of seizing the ghostly arm and calling for lights...