“I have all of my instruments,” referring to his radium needles. He later discovered one of his radium needles had been emptied of this expensive and dangerous element. The needle had been ...

So he had gone to the hospital and taken a 10-mg. radium needle. At home he opened it, expecting to find a single piece of radium. Instead, out came a powder that spilled over his hands.

Before a protection problem with radium needles is considered problems associated with radon seeds are discussed. Radon itself emits only alpha rays, which are cut out by the 0.3-mm. gold-tubing ...

A 43-year-old man was referred for the removal of a ‘radium needle’ extruding from the skin of his left upper eyelid. It was easily removed and subsequently proved to be a radon seed.

reported that a “radium needle” worth $2,000 was missing from his office. This was one of five needles of the rare element that Dr. Stevens had obtained while on the East Coast. After an ...

In her briefcase, the laureate who had been awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics and the1911 prize in Chemistry brought two radium needles that were used to irradiate tumors. During her visit, the ...