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  • Radium.
  • Radium.
  • Radium.
  • Radium.
  • Radium.
  • Radium.
  • Radium.
  • Radium Palace Hotel, Joachimsthal (Jáchymov), Bohemia. Process print.
  • Radium Palace Hotel, Joachimsthal (Jáchymov), Bohemia. Process print.
  • Annular growth of gullet; left, before radium; right, after radium. Ink drawing, ca. 1930.
  • Radium therapy : principles and practice / by G.E. Birkett.
  • Radium therapy : principles and practice / by G.E. Birkett.
  • Radiography : X-ray therapeutics and radium therapy / by Robert Knox.
  • Original apparatus belonging to Marie Curie, glass beaker that contained the first solution of radium salts (note discolourisation of glass)
  • Marie and Pierre Curie, he holding up a glowing specimen of radium. Colour lithograph by Vincent Brooks, Day & Son after J. M. Price [Imp, JMP], 1904.
  • Marie and Pierre Curie, he holding up a glowing specimen of radium. Colour lithograph by Vincent Brooks, Day & Son after J. M. Price [Imp, JMP], 1904.
  • Radium, and other radio-active substances : polonium, actinium, and thorium. With a consideration of phosphorescent and fluorescent substances, the properties and applications of selenium, and the treatment of disease by the ultra-violet light / by William J. Hammer.
  • Primitiæ gnomonicæ catoptricæ, hoc est horologiographiæ nouæ specularis in qua breuiter noua, certa, exacta, & facilis demonstratur horologiorum per reflexi luminis radium construendorum methodus. Item qua ratione prædicto reflexi luminis radio, in qualibet quantumuis irregulari muri superficie, in interioribus domorum, aliisque locis obscuris, & vmbrosis, cum horologia omnis generis, tùm omnium circulorum, qui in primo mobili considerari possunt, proiecturæ, & curuæ sectorum conorum lineæ, processus solis, & lunæ in planis indices, aliáque plurima scitu digna repræsentari possint, variè docetur / authore R.P. Athanasio Kircher Buchonio.
  • Cancer: three vignettes showing radiotherapy and surgery as the only effective cures, all other remedies being by implication ineffectual. Colour lithograph after D. Fellnagel, 1941.
  • Cancer: three vignettes showing radiotherapy and surgery as the only effective cures, all other remedies being by implication ineffectual. Colour lithograph after D. Fellnagel, 1941.
  • A tree made of people, on which a burr (burl) grows like a cancer. Colour lithograph after D. Fellnagel, 1941.
  • A lecturer pointing to a large screen, on which projected diagrams of the bodies of a man and a woman are marked with red flags indicating areas where cancer may be first seen. Colour lithograph after D. Fellnagel, 1941.
  • A red arrow on a graph pointing upwards through a human body, representing the increase in cancer in the USA. Colour lithograph after D. Fellnagel, 1941.
  • A lecturer pointing to a large screen, on which projected diagrams of the bodies of a man and a woman are marked with red flags indicating areas where cancer may be first seen. Colour lithograph after D. Fellnagel, 1941.
  • A red arrow on a graph pointing upwards through a human body, representing the increase in cancer in the USA. Colour lithograph after D. Fellnagel, 1941.