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Evening Star, Issue 12067, 12 December 1903, Page 4

Mr C. V. Boys, F.R.S., president of tJ» physical science section of the British Association, in his address on 'Radium,' said that the discovery stood out from all other events for its revolutionary possibilities. The apparently everlasting production of heat in easily measurable quantity by a minute amount of radium was, he said, so amazing that even now when any scientists had seen with their own eyes what happened they could scarcely believe what they saw. This giving off of heat, he continued, cculd scarcely be distinguished from the di> ccvery of perpetual motion, which it was a first principle of science to call impossible. It had left every chemist and physicist in a state of bewilderment An atom of radium could constantly produce an emanation something like a gas which escaped and carried with it -wonderful properties, but the atom remained and retained its weight This gas was self-luminous. It could be watched as it oozed through stopcocks or hurried through, tubes, but it was so small in amount that it had never yet been possible to weigh it, even with the most delicato scy-ks known to science. Radium, he said, must gredcaOy create other bodies different from itself. Medieval medical men considered chip? from the gallows on which somebody had been hanged a good remedy for ague. FREQUENTLY PRESCRIBED. scribe, Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera, arid Diarrhoea Remedy in severe cases of diarrhea, aysentery, and cramps in the stomach or bc-wels, as immediate relief always follows its use. It is one remedy that can always be depended upon, and is take.—£AdvtJ