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From Manhattan last week came press reports of advances in the treatment of cancer by radium. Experiments have gone on for some six months at the Memorial Hospital. No final results are claimed, and such cures as have been obtained must wait some time before they can be pronounced permanent...
Some 100 cases of cancer, mostly cancer of various parts of the head have been treated with results described as "very satisfactory." The method of treatment revolves around the use of a system of insulation which prevents the beta rays of radium and X-rays that are caustic to all tissue from reaching the area to be treated. It is believed that the gamma rays are the efficient agents in the treating of cancer by radium. By cutting off the beta rays by insulation, a greater concentration of gamma rays than hitherto could be safely used, may be applied without...
...Pittsburgh Chancellor John G. Bowman led off last week with a talk on Spare Moments. Dr. A. G. Worthing explained the Nature of Electricity, or as much of it as he could. Lectures in the offing deal with Radium, X-rays, Structure of the Atom, Relativity-topics which will doubtless supply timely and needed information to the farmers...
...Dmitri Ivanovitch Mendeléeff, Russian chemist, arranged all the elements in groups that show the mathematical progression of their atomic weights, predicted the existence of undiscovered elements which subsequent research found. Similarly, there was a square in the chemical crossword puzzle for radium, the properties of which were known before Madame Curie obtained that metal in a free state...
...Disease. A new disease, brought into existence by the application of radium to industry, was announced to the doctors by Dr. F. L. Hoffman of Newark, N. J. Women employed in painting the dials of watches with a radium preparation to make them shine in the dark absorbed enough of the powerful and constantly disintegrating element to cause bone decay, resulting in illness and, in some cases, death...