Re: Nasal Radium Irradiation

[Fritz Seiler <faseiler@nmia.com>]

Dear Franz,

Right in your neighborhood!  In Switzerland to be precise.  I
remember an aunt of mine  who had tuberculosis of the skin
on the tip of her nose in the mid-thirties.  After trying all kinds
of things, the doctors settled on the new-fad of  irradiating
the nose tissue with radium needles, and that finally killed the
Tb bacilli.  That was in about 1938/9, just before WW II.  It
also killed some healthy tissue, so she then had a thin but
healthy nose tip. As for somatic effects of that substantial
'gradient across the whole body' gamma irradiation, well, she
lived to be 98 and died "of old age."

Regards

Fritz

Franz Schoenhofer wrote:

> Dear RADSAFERs,
>
> I am following with much interest the NRI debate. Is there anyone who could
> tell whether similar "treatment" has occurred in other countries than the
> USA?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Franz
>
> Franz Schoenhofer
> Habicherg. 31/7
> A-1160 Vienna
> Austria

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