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...fact of the menace remains. Cancer is confined largely to middle life and old age, and is higher in the northern than the southern states, although this is not due to the race factor. Cancer is curable-if taken in time. Surgery and deep X-ray or radium treatment are so far the only proved remedies. Progress in the latter methods has recently been rapid. But the rub lies just in the fact that the malady is seldom discovered until it is too late when the lawless growth of the cancer cells has gotten a fatal hold on the healthy...
...worthy of note", Mr. Lythgoe continued, "that the same procedure ensued relative to electricity, radium, and the Einstein Theory. Twenty years ago electric belts, electric inner soles for shoes, and electric batteries were quite commonly used for the mitigation of real and imaginary diseases, while twenty years after, we accomplished better results with electric coffee pots, electric washing machines, etc. The vitamines are so constituted that they can and are being sold at high prices to the credulous, to mitigate most imaginary evils...
...unexpected discovery, however; the work of Sir Ernest Rutherford, Dr. F. W. Aston and others has paved the way for its ready acceptance. Uranium, thorium and radium split up of their own accord. Moreover, many astrophysicists have long believed that the sudden appearance of vast quantities of hydrogen and helium in new stars might be due to an elemental cataclysm of this kind on a gigantic scale...
...study of atomic weights conducted at the university is said to be the discovery, first proved definitely some years ago by Professors Richards and still holding good through recent careful tests, that there exists at least two kinds of lead instead of one. It was found that lead from radium minerals, while it possesses properties exactly similar to those of ordinary lead, has a distinctly smaller atomic weight, 2061 as against...
...lead from radium minerals is supposed to come from the decomposition of radium. Why its atomic weight is different from that of ordinary lead, whether ordinary lead may not itself prove to be a mixture of lighter lead with a heavier variety, perhaps due to the disintegration of the element thorium, and whether other elements, hitherto supposed to be final and invisible, may not also prove to be mixtures and thus open up a whole series of new problems as to the composition of mater, are questions to which the answers are being eagerly sought all over the world today...