Radium Emanation

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 69, 15 December 1923, Page 15

Radium Emanation

What its Use Implies

The Radium (Radiation) Appeal concerns country residents as much as, possibly more than, it concerns city residents. The city already has its radiologists, but the X-Rays treatment provides no transmissible emanation. The advent of Radium means that the X-Rays have an ally in the treatment of cancer and of other diseases, and that this ally (Radium) gives off an emanation which can be collected and sent to a distant place, where it can bo applied in treatment of disease. Thus Radium, through its transmissible emanation, can be put to direct application hundreds of miles away from where the parent stock of Radium is kept. ' It will thus be seen that the interest of the country dweller in this newer branch of Radiation—in a Radium treatment that can be sent to any town is vital. The Radium Department at Wellington Hospital will be able to Bend out a little parcel of emanation by means of which the sufferer may be treated in his home-town—New Plymouth, Palmerston North, Masterton, any Wairarapa or Manawatu town,. Blenheim, Nelson, Motueka; in fact, to any p. of which Wellington is the geographical and postal centre. ) TRANSPORT OF PATIENTS That is one reason why the country dweller has a special interest in the creating of a Radium Department at Wellington Hospital. After making every use of the emanation side of the equipment, there may still be reasons, in certain cases, why the country patient should go to the fountain head of a skilled treatment, instead of having the treatment brought to him. Very well;