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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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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Brain No. 4. Cross section shows comparativcly little destruction of braintissue. Dog died fifth day, Brain No. J. Received 2100 mgm. hrs.(surface application) also had infec-tion of wound. Photograph showsextensive necrosis. Dog died four-teenth day. I Brain No. Q. Received 1800 mgm.hrs. surface application. Pho-tograph shows that thenvery little destruction of braintissue. Dog died in seventeend.i\ s. V = y-dx, where x and y are given bv the equation of the ellipse - + ) a- b = 1, are plot tod as ordinates, and the dose in mgm.abscissae. It is seen that the h in s as but to some general condition of toxemia.The existence of a toxemia after exposureto either .v-rays or radium was early recog-nized both by clinicians and experimentalworkers, and considerable literature hasbeen produced in the discussion of thetotal volume oi moss destruction, in spite possible source of this toxemia. The resultsof increasing dosage, falls rapidly after of different observers have been somewhatthe dose

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