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RE: First Radiation Victim? -- resent with a modest correction



Title: First Radiation Victim?
J. Newell Stannard, in Radioactivity and Health: A History, DOE/RL/01830-T59, 1988, published by Office of Science and Technical Information, has a couple of places (Vol. I, p.17 and Vol. I, p.70, Table 1.4) the information that an arthritis patient died because of Ra-224 injections in 1912.  Stannard cites C. W. Mays, 1980, Personal communication, Tables prepared for the occasion of Dr. Spiess's 60th birthday celebration in Munich, April 13, 1980.  Stannard has a considerable discussion in the same chapter on the radium dial painters, the Thorotrast patients, the Peteosthor patients, and academic and laboratory research on radium, but does not appear to discuss the nasal irradiation during and after WWII.
 
Radioactivity and Health, in 3 volumes and around 2000 pages, is still available.  Amazon shows it at $97.50 for the three volumes and available used at $71.45.  Amazon shows Battelle Press as the publisher.
 
Best regards.
 
Jim Dukelow
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Richland, WA
jim.dukelow@pnl.gov
 
These comments are mine and have not been reviewed and/or approved by my management or by the U.S. Department of Energy.
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Greenstock, Clive [mailto:greenstockc@AECL.CA]
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 10:09 AM
To: 'radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu'
Subject: First Radiation Victim?


For the history books, can anyone provide a medically verifiable answer
to the following question(preferably with reliable documented reference):- 

Who was the first reported person to die from exposure to ionizing radiation?

Clive Greenstock
AECL, Chalk River
greenstockc@aecl.ca