Radium, its physics & therapeutics / by Dawson Turner.

Date:
1911
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Credit: Radium, its physics & therapeutics / by Dawson Turner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    5 milligrammes of impure radium bromide of an activity of 300,000 were used. Expressed in proper terms, the dose was about 4’25 milligramme hours. He has since had, at intervale of about six months, three recurrences, each of which has yielded at once to one or two fresh applications. He is a working man who cannot afford the time to have it thoroughly treated. Case 2.—A patient, aged about fifty years, recom- mended to me by Dr. M. Burnett, consulted me about a rodent ulcer of six years’ duration, placed close to and invading the inner canthus of the eye. It was a little smaller than a sixpence. I shielded the eye with lead-foil, and gave him in all five hours’ treatment with 10 milligrammes of pure radium bromide (50 milli- gramme hours); no shield except a thin piece of parch- ment paper was used. In one month’s time he was completely cured, and there has so far (eighteen months) been no recurrence. This case and the pre- ceding one illustrate the necessity for pushing the treatment beyond what would otherwise seem to be required, if a recurrence is to be avoided. Case 3.—A more serious case, in an older gentleman, recommended to me by Dr. G. Carmichael. The ulcer measured 2J by If inches, was excavated, had very prominent raised edges, and extended from the nose to the inner canthus. It was of many years’ dura- tion. It was treated with 10 milligrammes of pure radium bromide, enclosed in an aluminium box one-fifth of a millimetre thick, for four hours weekly. Improve-