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THURSDAY, › FEBRUARY 24; 1938.

DONT'S FOR PATIENTS AND DOCTORS

By A Medical Correspondent

Congress began its allver Jubilee WHEN you go to a doctor

sessions this morning.

The late Lord Rutherford, who, was to have presided over the congress, had prepared an address in which le described the "new alchemy"-the transmutation of the clements on which he was working at the time of his death last October,

This paper was read by Sir James Jeans, who said that Lord Ruther ford's work on the transmulation of the elements, though It-formed only a small part of hla fotal achievement, would alone hove assured him a place in the foremost ronk physicists.

His latest researches, the paper re- vealed, led him to envisage the possi- bility of using artificial radio-active elements as a substitute for radium in hospitals.

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་ ་ DON'T tell him what Dr. So-and-So said about

you, especially if he was foreign.

DON'T show him alt your old X-ray negatives. DON'T expect him to be interested in all your

former reports.

This advice is given by one of the King's physicians, Sir Maurice Cassidy, in The Lancet to-day.

He says that three out of every ten patients brought to him in consultation suffer purely from "nerves."

But they do not now get as angry as they used to when told this.

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ments had been discovered, and also Talk of Two to Four Million

several radio-active forms of known elements. Lord Rutherford instanced

a radio-active form of sodium which could be produced by "bombarding" common salt with deuterons-parti- elca given off when an electric dis- charge la passed through deuterium, or heavy hydrogen.

Pounds Damages

Possible damage estimates of ke- 10,000,000 and 20,000,000 tween dollars (£2,000,000 and £4,000,000) ore mentioned in connection with two sults filed at Wilmington, Delaware, by British Acoustle Flims, Ltd., a sub- After 40 * of

research, sidiary of the Gaumont-British Pic- physicists are now able to transmuteture Corporation.

most of the elemen

Lord Rutherford recalled how new sub-atomie world was opened up

by the discovery in 1806 that the

nioms of the two heaviest elements, uranium and thoriumi, were under going spontaneous transmutation and breaking up with explosive violence. In 1919 Lord Rutherford produced the Argl artificial transmutation

The actual amount of the damages considered to be involved Is not,

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The action is being taken against the R.C.A. Manufacturing Company (a subsidiary of the Radio Corpora [tion of America) and Electrient Re- Search Products Inc. (an affiliate An of company of Western Elecrtic.) nt clement by bombarding nitrogen injunction is being sought to prevent with charged atoms of helium, known the two defendant companies from as alpha-particles.

The next great advance camé La 1933, with the discovery by M. and Mind. Curle-Joliot of aruincial radio- activity. Their investigation showed that in some cases elements were formed which, white momentarily stable, ultimately broke up exactly like the natural radio-active. ele- ments of uranium and thorium.

1,000,000-VOLT BOMBARDMENT "No doubt," wrote Lord Rutherford In his paper, "such transient radio- nctive elements are still produced by transmutation in the furnace of our sun, where the thermal motions of the atoms must be very great. These radio-active elements would rapidly disappear as soon as the earth cooled down after separation from the sun. "On this view, uranium and thorium are to be regarded as practi- enlly, the sole survivors on our earth. of a large group of radio-netive cle- ments, owing to the fact that their time of transformation is long cam- pared with the age of our planet."

To be effective for ironsmutation purposes, the charged purticles with which the elements were bombarded in the laboratory had to be given high speed by accelerating them in a strong electrle neid. This had in- volved the use of apparatus provid-

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Lord Rutherford recalled the very simple apparatus with which he had worked at Manchester in 1919, "pain- fully counting with a microscope, a few faint scintillations originating from the bombardment of-nitrogen by

A source of alpha-particles."

\"THINGS TO COME"

As a contrast, he described his Icboratory at Cambridge, where "a great hall contains, massive

and elaborate mochinery, rising ter Ult of lier, to give a steady potentia! about 2,000,000 volts. Near by la the tall accelerating column, with n power station on top, protected by Breat corona shields, reminding one of the film of Wells's, The Shape of Things to Come,'

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"The Intense stream of accelerated particles falls on the target in room below, with thick walls to pro- tect the workers from stray radi- ation."

As science progressed, added Lord Rutherford, problema arose

whleh could be solved only by the use of large powers and complicated ap- paratus, requiring the attention of a team of research workers.. It rapid progress was to be made, such team work was likely to be a feature of the more elaborate researches of the futura.

ARTIFICIAL X-RAYS

American dactors have melunlly used an artificial radio-activo ele- ment as a substitute for X-rays. Two patients at the hospital of the Univer- rity of California were treated with radio-active nadlum, produced by the bombardment of common salt, ne de- scribed by Lord Rutherford.

The patients were suffering from Iduchaemia, a disease in which there in an excess of white corpuscles in the blood, Radio-nelive #odlum was administered by injection,

Supplies were not suffelent to cur ry the experiment very far, and the doctors could not any whether a cure would have resulted. - It was proved, however, that artificial radio-nelive sodium could be administered in this way without any bad effects, After- wards the patients were treated successfuly by X-mys.

They will not succeed, he says, until they can make every patient leave them looking ten years younger.

They should have themselves at least one acute and one chronic lil- ness, as well, as a major, operation.

THEY CAN'T TAKE IT

Here are some more "don'ts":

"Never go into a palient's room with your overcoat on. However overworked and pressed you may be, don't let hun sense it."

"Never alt on a patient's bed." "For heaven's sake, don't idly turn the pages of his newspaper while he pours out his tale of wor." Sir Maurice agrees that doctora make the most diMelall patients.

But they suffer more because they always cuspect the worst,

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A POSTMAN who spent all his money to bring home the body of his sailor son from Antwerp, gave evidence at a Hull inquest.

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any, cost," remarked the coroner James Edward lowley, the boy's "yet you had to draw your gratuity father, said that he asked the owners and spend all this money. to bring the body back to Hull In one of their vessels, but they refused, sinting they had arranged for the youth to be buried in Antwerp.

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