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THIS work contains short and vivid accounts of the life and work of twenty-seven men and one woman Mrs. Elizabeth Fleischman Ascheim aged from thirty-five to seventy-seven years at the times of their deaths, who as doctors or technicians in the United States contracted severe X-ray dermatitis and cancer, and died after many years of suffering and operations in the form of skin grafting or amputation.
American Martyrs to Science through the Roentgen Rays
By Dr. Percy Brown. Pp. xv + 276. (Springfield, 111., and Baltimore, Md.: Charles C. Thomas; London: Baillière, Tindall and Cox, 1936.) 16s.
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[Short Notices]. Nature 138, 634 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138634c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/138634c0