Identifier: americanjournroen09ameruoft (find matches)
Title: The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Radium Society American Roentgen Ray Society
Subjects: Radiotherapy X-rays
Publisher: Springfield, Ill. C.C. Thomas
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ethe calculated time of death the animalsbecame very ill with general weakness andprostration, but with still no paralysis, anddied apparently from increasing weakness.Symptoms deriyed from the gastrointes- 562 The Effect of Radium on the Normal Tissues of the Brain tinal tract were not in evidence, a pointto be borne in mind in the later discussionof roentgen-ray toxemia. A second reason for considering thatthe fatal result is not due to the loss offunction of the injured brain is found inFigure 2, in which the total volume ofdestruction seen grossly, calculated as halfan ellipsoid of revolution by the formula corded on the cord, and also from the grossfindings in the brains of the two animalsthat had lived for almost a year aftersmall doses. In these two animals the sizeof the lesions was far in excess of that seenin the animals autopsied a short time afterequivalent doses. Nevertheless the twofactors taken together indicate clearly thatthe cause of death is not due to local effect,
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Brain No. i. Received 1400 mgm. hrs.sui face application. Brain No. 1. Cross section shows Brain No. 4. Received 900 mgm. hrs.extensive destruction of brain implanted into brain substance, tissue. Dog lived twenty-eight days.

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