Radium, and All About It (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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I. Perhaps no subject has awakened so much interest, in the mind of the general public as the discovery of radium. This has been partly due to' its excessive rarity and consequent high price; partly to the suggestions made by several medical men of high repute of the possibility of its being successfully used in the treatment of cancer, sarcoma, lupus, and kindred diseases; and yet more by the extraordinary physical pro perties possessed by this new substance properties which at first glance seem de stined to revolutionise many of our accepted 'views Of the conditions in which matter, and especially the so-called elements, exist.

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