WANTED-CHEAPER RADIUM
At a recent meeting on the subject of medical therapeutics Sir Frederick Treves said that the radium salts in use at the Radium Institute were purer than those generally in use. He spoke of the results that had been obtained, but remarked that these ought not to raise hopes that might be doomed to disappointment. It would be a good thing if the medical profession adopted a. policy of silence for at least two years with regard to the results they obtained. He supported the suggestion that the medical profession should adopt such a policy, because radium had thrown over the very foundations of chemistry, and had opened up a new world of physics. Before very long the prica of a milligramme of radium would be £lO instead of £2O, but it would never \ become cheap. There were great hopes of obtaining supplies from Portugal and Color*4°- ■ *.
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Evening Star, Issue 15480, 30 April 1914, Page 8
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149WANTED-CHEAPER RADIUM Evening Star, Issue 15480, 30 April 1914, Page 8
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