Radium: Its Therapeutic Uses in General Practice

This little book gives a short account of cases treated by the author with radium in the hope that it may draw the attention of the general practitioner and student to the conditions in which this valuable therapeutic agent may be of use. The first portion of the work is devoted to a short summary of the physical problems connected with radium, including apparatus, screening, methods of application and dosage. The second part deals with the therapeutics of radium. The list of cases includes examples of all the more important conditions for which radium is used. The author complains that he has had great difficulty in following up cases; but the records, as far as they go, contain abundant evidence of the good that can be done