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THIS volume is a valuable addition to Messrs. Churchill's “Recent Advances” series, and comes at an appropriate time, for it is true to say that a balanced, readable and competent account of the possibilities of radium therapy was never more necessary, both for the medical profession and for the public. The first part of the book deals with the occurrence and extraction of radium, its physical properties and their measurement, its mode of action on the tissues, radio-resistance and -sensitivity, and the intricacies and difficulties of dosage. The different types of applicators- surface, needles, tubes and bomb-and the screens employed are gone into in detail, as well as the methods for the protection of radium workers.
Recent Advances in Radium.
W. Roy Ward A. J. Durden Smith. Pp. viii + 324. (London: J. and A. Churchill, 1933.) 21s.
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MURRAY, J. Recent Advances in Radium. Nature 132, 840 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132840a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/132840a0