Abstract

There is at the present time very general interest in the question of the therapeutic use of radium. It may also be added that there is very hazy knowledge as to what has actually been done with it. I have, therefore, thought that it would be worth while to consider the subject now in so far as is possible with the facts which are before us. Let me say at the outset that I have made no attempt to review all of the literature on this subject. I have only attempted to consider such authentic literature as seemed to me to have some bearing on the problem which I have undertaken to consider, viz., the therapeutic possibilities of radium. While the public press is teeming with vague and sensational accounts of the use of radium in disease, actual tangible facts are surprisingly few in the authentic literature of the sub

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