Radium, its physics & therapeutics / by Dawson Turner.

Date:
1911
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Radium, its physics & therapeutics / by Dawson Turner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    CONTENTS CHAFIBR I. DISCOVERY OF RADIO-ACTIVITY—LIST OF RADIO-ACTIVE SUBSTANCES—CHARACTERISTIC EFFECTS—ALPHA RAYS II. BETA RAYS — ELECTRONS—GAMMA RAYS—PENETRATIVE POWER—MAGNETIC DEFLECTION—EMANATION . III. APPLICATION OF RADIUM ; CONTAINERS, GLASS TUBES, CAPSULES, TOILES RADIF^IRES—STRENGTH, HOW MEASURED ; DOSE—MILLIGRAMME HOURS—SCREENS . IV. DURATION OF APPLICATIONS—PRODUCTION AND THERA- PEUTIC USE OF THE EMANATION JORDAN’S METHOD— LOWENTHAL’s METHOD — WICKHAM AND DEGRAIS EMULSIONS—CROSSED FIRE—INCLUSION IN TUMOURS . V. EFFECTS OF RADIUM : SELECTIVE AND GENERAL DESTRUC- TIVE ACTION—ULTRA-PENETRATING RAYS OF DOMINICI— NERVOUS SYSTEM, HOW AFFECTED — DANYZS, OBER- STEINER AND NIEHL’S EXPERIMENTS —HUMAN TISSUES, HOW AFFECTED—HISTOLOGICAL CHANGES IN MALIG- NANT GROWTHS—GILBERT BARLING’s VIEWS . VI. DISEASES IN WHICH RADIUM IS OF SERVICE—RODENT ULCERS, TREATMENT AND AFTER-TREATMENT—IF ON MUCOUS MEMBRANES—CASES . . . . VII. ANGIOMAS OF VARIOUS KINDS, PIGMENTARY NA5VI, PORT- WINE STAINS—WARTY GROWTHS—PAPILLOMA . vii PAGE 1 8 17 25 33 41 47