Mild radium treatment has the endorsement of some of the greatest medical men in the world. A. previse or logical definition of mild radium therapy presents some difficulty; so a simple preliminary explanation of the term must take its place. Mild radium therapy consists of the administration internally of radium emanations in amounts corresponding to quantities found in natural water. These are absorbed by the digestive or respiratory organs, and the application externally of powdered radium-containing ore, by means of compresses or packs.
Mild radium therapy may, therefore, be said fo be an irradiation with such small, even minute, or homeopathic doses, as has for many years proved of therapeutic value. Up to the present time this method was comparatively unknown in England, but on the continent (particularly in Germany and Austria) and in America, it has been employed for several years with considerable success. In the past it was used accidentally and empirically; in the present its value has been scientifically proved.
The fascinating history of radium goes back to the times of the early Romans when their baths were credited with mystic cures. In Spain, the kings reserved the right to drink the water as a royal prerogative. In Europe, in the days when Bohemia was still a kingdom, one of the places which achieved fame on account of the healing powers of its earth, air and water, was the district of St. Joachimstal. There it was that the first ores yielding radium were obtained, aad from there "cures" were reported. The people of those days called a cure a miracle.
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