Radium's Medical Promise and Research
The scientific medical world, at least, is still exercised over radium and its powers. Recently the radium institute was opened in London, and it was literally besieged by patients awaiting treatment. There are so few who really understand the use of radium that it is impossible to treat those who come, and consequently applicants are placed under very close restrictions. Foundations have been laid in Paris for a great radium palace, and Madam Curie will have general charge. She will carry on the researches there which she began with her late husband, and which have never been interrupted since his death. The building will be lined throughout with a thick layer of lead, impenetrable to radium rays. Its weight will be enormous, and therefore its walls are laid exceptionally deep. It will be the heaviest building for its size in the world, and will be made to look, by its outside decoration, to be one of the lightest.