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yet Thinks the Wonderful stance Can Be Used to © Pelmesary Tuberculosi Frederick Soddy, who was Prof. Ruth erford, assistant at McGill university, in Montreal, has suggested another use for radium. He argues that as it has been found to cure consumption of the skin (lupus). It should also cure con sumption of the lungs, if its rays can be brought to bear directly on the diseased lung tissue, without any intervening substances, such as the chest wall. At first sight, says the Scientific American, this seems rather a difficult thing to do, as It is, of course, out of the question to place any solid mass of radium within the lungs themselves. But recent stud ies have shown that radium in a solution gives off a gas and that this gas is itself radio-active. So all that is necessary to subject the Internal lung desire to the direct action of radium rays is to breath a mixture of air and the radium gas. By this means Mr. Soddy believes a new and valuable remedy for consumption will be available to the pathologist. The rays from radium have already proved use ful in the treatment of several forms of gkin disease, and it has been suggested that the axertion of minute particles of jum in the interior of a cancer ea rth trying. It should be remembered, , that even if radium proves val ia In the treatment of pulmonary tu berculosis, its cost is so high—several hundred dollars , if it could not come into general nder present |
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Newport Daily Independent
Newport, Arkansas, US
Tue, Sep 13, 1904
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