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Combined with the work of the Medical School is that done jointly with the School of Public, Health in cooperation with the state authorities studies of industrial poisoning, manganese, carbon monoxide, lead, and radium poisoning have been carried...
...Cancer is treated by X-ray, radium, or surgery. The earlier competent advice is sought, the greater the chance of cure. It is not a shameful disease to be kept under cover. The average delay before seeking competent advice is eight months, but there should be no such delay...
...Radium is so precious therapeutically and so expensive that when a hospital loses its bit the loss stirs the community. Canton, Ohio, was thus excited last week by the disappearance of a quarter-inch tube of radium worth $5,000, at Aultman Hospital. Hospital officials sent for Professor Samuel James Mclntosh Allen of the University of Cincinnati to help them find...
...electroscope. This electroscope he rubbed with a piece of cat's fur and slowly waved over the hospital's cinder heap. By and by the gold leaf dropped. Professor Allen immediately sifted the indicated cinders and with a forceps picked up the lost tube of radium. It had been thrown into the furnace with dirty bandages, as he had suspected...
...miracle was, of course, plain physics, which has been used dozens of times to find lost radium. When Professor Allen rubbed his electroscope with the cat's fur he charged it with static electricity. Because radium gives off rays with electrical characteristics, when the electroscope approached the radium among the cinders, the rays affected the electrically charged gold leaf. Naturally, they separated...