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THE review of the second edition of our book, “Radium, X-rays, and the Living Cell,” under the above title in NATURE of July 26 cannot pass without comment from us. One out of the two columns devoted to this review is a dissertation by the reviewer on the avoidance, by suitably directed regime and feeding, of the ills that fall to the lot of civilised man, including complaints such as cancer, dyspepsia, gastric and duodenal ulcer, gallstones, appendicitis, etc We think that the natural inference of your readers will be that we have been writing on these matters; but we have neither written on this subject, nor do we subscribe to the opinions of the reviewer. Our efforts in producing the second edition of this book have, as in the first edition, been devoted to bringing together the chief experimental facts which have been ascertained of the effects which the rays from radium and X-rays have upon living organisms, and discussing very briefly any generalisations which may be possible on these facts.
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COLWELL, H., RUSS, S. A Biological Study of Radiation. Nature 114, 313 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114313c0
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