Abstract
IN the fourteen years since the discovery of radium a large mass of observations has arisen on the effects of radium rays on the various tissues of the living organism. The present work aims at collecting data from the publications of all countries and systematising the results obtained with normal as well as pathological tissues; and the effects on plants and animals as well as on man. The author expresses his keen desire to arrange his material so as to show some definite general principles resulting from the physiological actions of radium rays. Unfortunately he has had to own himself quite unable to achieve this ambition. He has therefore decided to divide the work into a biological and a medical section, and to divide each of these into an experimental and a clinical side. The work does not pretend to be a text-book; it is offered merely as a complete compilation up to date.
Das Radium in der Biologie und Medizin.
By E. S. London. Pp. vi + 199. (Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft m. b. H., 1911.) Price 6 marks.
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J., A. Das Radium in der Biologie und Medizin . Nature 86, 310 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/086310a0
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