Radium and Its Surgical Applications *From a Paper read at a Meeting of the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society held at the University of Bristol on 12th February, 1929.

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  • H. S. Souttar
چکیده

The discovery of radium by Madame Curie in 1898 opened up a field of physical research the limits of which it is impossible to see. Although it was found at an early stage that radium had a definite action upon living tissues, this appeared to be purely destructive, and it is only recently that the selective action of radium upon cancer cells has been adequately demonstrated. Depending as it does upon y rays, this selective action involves the use of screens to cut out those rays which are purely destructive, and the success of modern methods has depended very largely on

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دوره 46  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2016