Radium and Radio-Active Substances Their Application Especially to Medicine (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Radium and Radio-Active Substances Their Application Especially to Medicine To fill a demand for an inexpensive non-mathematical work on the subject of radium and its application in medicine, arrangements were made for the publication of this book. At that time the excellent treatises of Rutherford and Soddy had not appeared. To anyone purposing the prosecution of investigations, these works are indispensable. One treats the phenomena of radio-activity from the point of view of a physicist, while the other looks at them more with the eyes of a chemist. The appearance of these works has made it necessary to alter this book somewhat. The technical details have been given so admirably by these co-laborers that it has been thought just as well to omit much here. This book emphasizes a phase naturally but hinted at by them, namely, the application of radio-active substances in medicine. The writer is not in a position to harmonize the contradictory evidence given in reputable medical journals as to the therapeutic uses of the salts of radium, consequently the observations have been impartially reported. Physicians of prominence, who have had much to do with the use of this novel substance in their practice, have been good enough to revise the chapter bearing upon that phase of the subject. It has been deemed advisable for comparison to annex a short chapter on other therapeutic radiations. As many physicians will have neither the time nor the opportunity to study the larger works, sufficient of the general subject has been presented for a fairly clear conception of our present knowledge of these startling, perhaps revolutionary, phenomena. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.