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RADIUM.

AMERICA WANTS TWO GRAMMES.

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about $2.

+

THE HONGKONG

GLEGRAPE.

THURSDAY, MAY 13. 1920.

for the shain pulty of electric health should be deliberata Jest MINISTERS AND TEMPERANCE lampe. Dr. Moore rationally hasta invita an undesirable

| belióvan that this is a prontitation (aftermath.

(of an almost prionless substance

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Elexams and a number of other

bill.

REFORM.

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—particularly as mesothorium skin troubles respond readily to |A DIVIDED GOVERNMENT, will answer well enough in the radium therapy. This is markedly Writing in the New York Eva-Making of luminous preparations, so where the rays are soreaned London, March 26-After the ing Fost, Mr. Robert G. Skarrest and he wants to see all of our by means of aluminum, and half-statement of the Minister for radium "put to therapeutic strength apparatus is employed Education on the Welsh Tam- for periods of not more than peranca Bill in the House of A quarter of a million dollars is purposes.

Seven years or so ago radium fifteen minutes at a time. It Commons that the Government not a staggering sum wherewith to battle with disease-especially achieved some remarkable cures seems that spring eatarel is considered the scheme defectiva when the malady is of the mali of malignant growths, and at once very amenable to radium therapy in certain important respects

warrant the and that, though willing guant character of cancer. The it was hailed as a positive cure and this would

its second reading to Senate Finance Committee of the for cancer. This was not without assumption that hay fever, nose leave

free vola of the House, New York Legislature has been warrant, because in numerous colds and kindred affections may

could no: undertake for the promotion of the work of the disease she rays from radium misers of hundreds of thousands to provide time for its further orged to make this appropriation cases of superficial occurrences of yet be conquered and the annual they

A pronounced consideration, members must the State Institute for Cancer did in fact produce astonishing ameliorated to

But as time went on the degrea.

have found it decidedly perplex-i Research in Buffalo. With this results

As the London institution it ing to learn on the authority of money it will be possible to pur.records dislosed many instances

of of failure, and this was especial- was found possible to bring about Mr. Herbert Lawia that had the chase quite, two grammes radium. This minute measure of noted where the seat of the marked improvement in cases of Prime Minister been present in the marvellous mineral will make trouble was internal and treat-malignant disease by burying person be would it practicalde to treat something ment could not be regulated with tubes of radiom emanation in the spoken and rated in favour of the like a million persons, because the nicets possible" where the growths. From five to seven of an exterior one, these tubes, made of platinum, the ceaseless emanation from the affliction was

How this massage was to be radium can be caught, confined This should not be hard to underwere employed, and their walls

with Mr. Fisher's and made available for wide-stand if heed be given for a were three-tenths of a millimetre reconciled

tament to the peculiar activities thick. Altogether, the tubes were statement, officially made on be spread therapeutic service.

charged with something like 120 ball of the Government, did not At the present tima the In-of radium. stitute has at its command only Radium gives off continually millicuries of radium emanation. appear. Perhaps the explanation about $5,000 worth of the precious three sorts of rays. The alpha1n this way, thirty patients was to be sought in the sequal to radio-active substance, and this rays reach out approximately suffering in different parts of the the statement rather than in the is not by any means enough to half an inch from their source:body, with supposedly inoperable statement itself, the character of and carcinoma were which evidently came as an un- carry on its vestigation. Further, the beta rays are projected three sarcoma

That is to say, they welcome surprise to the bill's radium is likely to cast a great times as far; and the gamma rays cured. deal more in the near future than persist in their course for a much showed no signs of recurrence supporters. At all events, the it does now, and the Federal longer distance. A sheet of paper after an interval of two years or latter in their speeches bad con- geologists held out na present for barrier of thin tinfoil will halt more. In advanced inoperable veyed an impression of being ton- hope for the worowering of new the alpha rays; a wall of lead cases, where the growth is largely fidens of the Government's aid, native sources of supply. Indeed, only a millimetre thick will artes: removed by the scalpel, the probably having been assured lu with advance of what presently turned the carnotite ores of Colorado the beta rays; but the gamma supplemental treatment and Utah. from which the whole rays will go through seven and buried emanation tubes is a great out to be an altogether different world for some years back has one-half inches of iron without help. This is exactly what Dething the Prime Minister's in- been drawing its radium. are losing more than one per cent, of Howard A. Kelly of Baltimore, dividual goodwill

original intensity. The one of our foremost surgeons and · It was on the more general very much at a premium. In their creasing demand will inevitable gamma rays are the ones that advocates of radium therapy, assumption that Mr. Sidney Ro binson had moved, and Mr. Hinds send prices soaring, and it would the physician or surgeon employs predicted quite six years azo

a because they have the peculiar; As he then explained: "Where had seconded the second reading, be good business as well as potential benefaction to buy the effect of retarding growth or radium is used in combination while, so far as one could judge. the seeming to induce an actual te-with the knife, radium completes Mr. Asquith, in giving his blessing the quantity desired for

trogression. Clearly, it this re-the sterilizing or the destruction to the principle of local option (as Buffalo institution.

In 1903 a milligram of radium.pressive action is not confined to of the remaining inniltrated tissue embodied in the billl and with then for the most part a labora-the diseased area, the effect of which the scalpel could not holding it from such more ambi- conceptions 33 State tory curiosity could be had for the gamma rays may induce in.remove in detail. In other words,tions

By 1914, however,flammation in healthy tissue and it reduces to just that extent the purchase, was under the same when we had more than a hint of furnish fuel, sa to speak, to the measure of surgical work and impression.

contributes proportionately to- the mineral's pussite curative neighbouring malignant flame.

Ironically enough. Mr. Asquith's Sox the primary rays in disewards the likelihood of a perman- anitude was afterwards claimed virturs, the same minute quantity, was bringing 800. Then it was sipating themselves give of what

The Caited States Bureau of by a Welsh Coalitionis: member that the Laited States Bureau ei are technically termed "emana Mines has proved that radiumas yet another vindication of the Mines set about devising process by which it would be little tubes and used directly in can be extracted from carotite Principle of coalition on the too posible to obtain radium at a treating cancerous comunions. Pres at a cost of only $38,000 hasty ground that it showed all mach lower rost. Dr. This procedure has a num Stam; and the methods or pro-parties to be united in support DÍ

cesses which made this possible: oi an experi-ber

and advantages Moore established mental laboratory in Denver.suptible of very nice control are now public property. The of different stumbling block to getting any and there, with the assistance of when containers

considerable amount is due to the K. E Kitbil and C. F. Whitte-metals are used to temper or to more, not only evolved a cheaper screen the radiations so that they fact that a very large quantity of way for ex racting radium from will have their zones of influence material must be handled in carnolite but, when the recovery restricted and act agreeably to order to obtain a minute measure firm reliance on the "cleas, reso-.:

the needs of the patient. Thus the desired radio artive concen-lute, and determined stand, to be as an outcome of painstaking re-rue. For example, assuming made by the Prime Minister, even search radium gaining more

though other Liberal Ministers two per cent, ore will furnish just might be "diddled by the Trade, aid to the recognition as surgeon, and latterly, both here 40 pounds of uranium oxide: was quietly bidding his time, and

and this when rebined, will with good reason... and abroad radium ber apparente

"634 milligrams by cured a very considerable perio

of radium chloride. Don't forget centage of surgically inoperable that there are a thousand milli had been moved by Major Barns maligaan: growths. Further, it D. Moore, when appearing has served to check diseased ranus in a gram, and the latter tent and seconded by Mr. Haill recently a: the hearing in conditions and, to prolong life weighs exactly 14 troy grains. wood, the debate developed on Albany, declared

there and there is no doubt about the Plains, hundreds and hundreds lines increasingly favourable to were not more than $5 grams of power of the radio-active sub-of tons of the basic carnotite have the cause of local control, though radium in the United States at stance to lessen pain and to retu be put through various opera- more than one supporter, it should tions before the radium chloride be noted, pleaded strongly for a present ready for dee; and be dare distressing discharges.

Reporta from the British is extracted: and the value of more definite recognition of the said that the known deposite of carnotite would probably nut vield Radium Institutes at Manchester this depends very largely, indeed. principle of compensation. In the

upon its purity.

ignoring of this principle Mr. in the course of some gears to and London show steady progress |

Fisher saw one of his reasons, come an additional amount in in radium therapy. Quite apart

no: indeed for opposing the bill excess of 100 gram. According from the treatment of cancer, etc.

aut right, but for the strong ex- to Dr. Moore, radium, now selling radium emanations bave been of

ception taken to it by the Govern- at $125,000 a gram, is cheaper the utmost use in dealing with

meat. Another reason was than it is likely to be era pag. non-malignant conditions and and he prophesied that the price war-time hurte. This, of course, The last contingent of Princess declared to be that no use had would bedoubled within a decade. opens a new field of application Beatrice's Isle of Wight) Rifles,ben made by the promoters of experiences accumulated during Therefore, be pointed out, it was and is likely to prove of marked Territorial Battalion, which has the war. and a third that no the part of wisdom to keep as benefit in handling industrial ac- just returned from Khartum after

adequate provision was included mach of the mineral as possible [ridents and perhaps in arresting early five years' service oversea.

for temperance reform during within our own reach.

development and spread of infect brought home as a regimental pei During the war radium was et conditions. Ba: experience a seven-month-old lion cub the intervening period of the next six years. Yet the Governr ased 10 the preparation of brought to light the necessity of which was captored when six

quent themselves, as the Ministe- luminous paints for the dial of exercising the utmost caution weeks old in the Sennaar aistrics airplane instrument, for gun and disclosed that each case of the Sudan during a big game went on to remind the House

է: considered sights and for the faces of watches, had to

apart. shoot, and was presented to the were about to bring in a bill 5:1712 instances radium battalion. It became a great dealing with general question of so that essential figures and in-In dicators might be made visible on was found to promote favourite with the man. playing temperance, legislation, so that the darkest nights and there has superficial ulceration unless the with them like a kitten. It was the third objection proved to be since been a growing disposition strength of the application was brought to bagian in a cage, mosely formal. to utilize the same radiant base very much reduced. Of course, and arrangements have been in manufacturing electric push this prolonged the treatment, but made to send it to the London buttons, keyhole plates and tips prudence ruled that the return to Zoological Gardens.

plant was closed, in January of 1977 there had been reclaimed from the yellow ore about St grams of radium. The methods devised by these othrials of the Bureauet Mines made-it-practice able to obtain radium for unly about one-third of the current market price.

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A reference by the puzzling message sent by Mr.ed goods are to be left in the Go- downs, where they will be ex- Mr. Fisher to his sympathy with Lloyd George, the inner meaning amined on May 13th at 10 a.m.

which. despite a vigorous the motives of the proposal proof voked general laughter--a retec-challenge to the Ministers from and May 14th at 10 s.m. tion on his sincerity observed by Mr. Raffan, to coaless their differ-

All claims must be presented the Minister with pain. Possibly ences remained unexplained. Fin- the scoffers would think better of ally came a series of confused and within a week of the steamer's the Government. be suggested. narrow divisions, in which only arrival here. after which they when the latter produced their two or three of the minor members cannot be recognized. promised measure. "You are of the Government took part. In killing the bill in the meanwhile," retorted one of the Welsh mem bers, and to that reproach Mr. Fisher could offer no rejoinder.

the rs: the closure was just No claim will be admitted carried by 102 votes to 67 after the goods have left the minimum of 100 voles being re-Godowns and all goods remaining quired to carry a closure mation undelivered after May at all) and the second reading by will be subject to rent. 186 10 84.

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