£350 OF RADIUM SLIPS DOWN MAN’S THROAT IN SLEEP.
PATIENT SUFFERS NO ILL-EFFECTS.
By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Reuter’s Telegrams. (Received May 22, 4.5 p.m.) PARIS, May 21. A hospital patient undergoing radium treatment, in his sleep broke a tube containing radium held in his mouth, and a speck of radium, valued at £350, slipped down the man’s throat. Doctors followed its course with the radioscope down his gullet into the stomach. The patient suffered no ill effects.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17853, 22 May 1926, Page 10
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