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AW: HHS RELEASE--SURGEON GENERAL RELEASES NATIONAL HEALTH ADVISORY ON RADON
Something is missing in this story, namely that legislation is under its
way that on all doors a warning has to be attached:
"Warning of the Surgeon General: Radon may kill you!"
Franz
Franz Schoenhofer
PhD, MR iR
Habicherg. 31/7
A-1160 Vienna
AUSTRIA
phone -43-0699-1168-1319
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu [mailto:owner-
> radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu] Im Auftrag von Stabin, Michael
> Gesendet: Freitag, 14. Jänner 2005 16:42
> An: RuthWeiner@AOL.COM; crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM;
> radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu; know_nukes@yahoogroups.com
> Betreff: RE: HHS RELEASE--SURGEON GENERAL RELEASES NATIONAL HEALTH
> ADVISORY ON RADON
>
>
> And do we all remember....
>
> "This led to the discovery by others that the waters in many of the
> world's most famous health springs were also radioactive. This
> radioactivity is due to the presence of radium emanation - what we now
> call radon gas - produced by the radium that is present in the ground
> through which the waters flow. Who could doubt that it must be the
> radioactivity that was responsible for the curative properties of the
> health springs? Certainly not Surgeon General Dr. George H. Torney,
who
> wrote (ca. 1910) that 'Relief may be reasonably expected at the Hot
> Springs in . . . various forms of gout and rheumatism, neuralgia;
> metallic or malarial poisoning, chronic Brights disease, gastric
> dyspepsia, chronic diarrhea, chronic skin lesions, etc.'..."
>
> Paul Frame, Radioactive Curative Devices and Spas, at
> http://www.orau.org/ptp/articlesstories/quackstory.htm
>
>
> Mike
>
> Michael G. Stabin, PhD, CHP
> Assistant Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences
> Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences
> Vanderbilt University
> 1161 21st Avenue South
> Nashville, TN 37232-2675
> Phone (615) 343-0068
> Fax (615) 322-3764
> Pager (615) 835-5153
> e-mail michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu
> internet www.doseinfo-radar.com
>
>
>
>
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