MANUFACTURE OF RADIUM

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 27, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 30.

MANUFACTURE OF RADIUM.

RICHARD GUENTHER, United States consul-general at Frankfort, referring to the “radium industry” already developed in Germany and France, says: “Notwithstanding the difficulty in its production, a radium industry has already developed in Germany and France, and altho one gram is sold at a little less than $2,000, the manufacturers are said to have orders for several hundred grams. The demand for medical purposes exceeds the supply. Radium possesses all the important qualities of the Röntgen rays, in addition to the invaluable property of being ready for use at any time, and furnishing its rays without the employment of apparatus. It has been demonstrated that a small glass tube, not larger than a goose-quill, containing a little more than a thousandth part of a gram, is as effective as an expensive and complicated electric apparatus for the treatment of cancer—surpassing the best effects of the Röntgen rays. The ease with which radium can be administered locally, as, for instance, in the nose and throat, is an invaluable advantage.”