important advance in making radium safer for those who use it is mentioned by the Medical Research Council in "Medical Uses of Radium," issued recently.
The radium is blown by air pressure to and from the storage. safe and the apparatus, thus obviating the necessity of-handling it and eliminate ing exposure of the staff.
Another important development. recorded is the "labelling" of substances as they pass through the body by utilising radioactive" matter.
"It-is well illustrated by the case of phosphorus," says the report. "If a very small trace of radioactive phosphorus is mixed with the ordinary variety, then the presence of the latter is proved by the presence of the former."
Cases of malignant disease treated during 1938 at research centres totally ed 4,387 at general hospitals and 1311 at m ial hospitals.
ile over 32 per cent. of the treatments at general hospitals were by surgery alone, only 10 per cent. were so carried out in special - hospitals.
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