Radium's Use in Medicine

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Reply-to: Melissa.Woo@p0.f13.n233.z1.fidonet.org (Melissa Woo)
Fido-To: romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu!fs.isu.


Thursday August 25 1994, romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu!fs.isu.edu!BUS writes to Hps:

 reueie>     Speaking of radium, we are currently doing some investigations<<
 reueie> of a device that was called the "revigorator". A crock with radium<<
 reueie> ore/clay mixture on the inside of it.  The directions on it says:<<

It looks like we all have something like this, but one of ours is called
a "revigator," rather than "revigorator."

I also have a little pamphplet published by the Texas State Dept of Health
(Texas Health Bulletin) in 1964.  Inside the headline reads, "Radiation
Cones: device of QUACKS."  The pamphlet then covers a few of the schemes
that were used to bilk a radiation-happy public.

Melissa Woo, Health Physicist
Univ of IL at Urbana-Champaign
m-woo@uiuc.edu

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