Abstract
THIS is a small manual suitable for medical men, giving in a concise form an account of the physical phenomena of radio-activity and the therapeutic uses of radium. For the physical part of the book the writings of Profs. Rutherford and Soddy have been largely used, and for the therapeutic chapters reference has been made to the works of Drs. Wickham, Degrais, and Dominici. In addition, the author records his own observations founded upon a five years' experience of the use of radium as a therapeutic agent. The book is illustrated by a number of plates, including portraits of Prof, and Mme. Curie as frontispiece, and portraits showing various diseases o before and after treatment by radium. These include rodent ulcer, haevus, port-wine stain, warts, papilloma, and spring catarrh of the eye. Radium: its Physics and Therapeutics. By Dr. D. Turner. Pp. x+86. (London: Bailliere, Tindall, and Cox, 1911.) Price 5s. net.
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