The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-19
PLANS SUBMITTED
 FOR NEW BUILDING

FOk NEW BUILDING
 'In connection with our new building we have purchased the finest X-Ray equipment obtainable in the United States, and when the building is com pleted will fit up patholo gical | laboratory. The new building will be absolutely fireproof. and of the same type of construction as is the present building. We have plans submitted by Leslie Welton the well known archi-
 tect,. and it only remains to make the final decision before work starts" In view of the fact that Birmingham will be the only city in the south to
 have radium in sufficient quantities to give cancer treatment, something of this fascinating discovery of Mme. Curie in Paris in 1898 vii be of inter- est.
 For the $132,000 in cold cash the Bir- mingham infirmary received one gram and a hundred miigrams. This Is less than one twenty-ifth of an ounce, but over 700 tons of chemicals were used in treating 800 tons of carnotite ore to obtain it. This is exclusive of the water Radium is extracted commer- c;ally from carnotite, pitchblende and autunite all uranium ores. The present world production of high grade radium productions is approximately 22 grams of radium element of which the Stan- dard company of Pittsburg makes IS grams.
 Radium was discovered in 1898 in Paris by Madame Curie, but it's tre- mendous healing power was not fully appreciated until some years later. Dr. Howard Kelley of Baltimore was the first to introduce it into the United States and only one other city has hos pitals offering it. This is New York. where a radium sanatorium was opened a week ago with a capacity of several hundred patients and had a waiting list
 in AS hours. The enormous cost of radium makes it almost prohibitive to any but the great centers of population and 1t is vastly easier to go to the radium than to have the radium come to you, and less expensive.
 USE OF RADIUM
 IN ITS INFANCY
 The healing power of radium lies in the rays which it gives off. These are three and are known as alpha beta and gamma rays for want of better names. Radium is being used in curing an ever increasing variety of diseases and emil pent physicians believe that this cure is in it's infancy. Radium is now used in treating all kinds of cancers, tumors. malignant and n-malignant; for tha removal of warts, birth marks and is giving wonderful results in the treat n,ent of infected wounds following gum shot injuries and surgical operations. Radium arrests blood poisoning instantly. It is also used in removing golfers.
 Seventeen hundred years is but half the life of radium
 The English government recently se- cured radium and is using it in the treat ment of infected wounds with wonderful results Radum, it has also been found, will cure Bright's disease or nephritis. A recent discovery which still further opened the fields of usefulness of radium was that it can be taken internally with magical results. A tube of radium is , placed in distilled water and 1t becomes charged with the rays. It is then taken by the patient This sis known as the emr aticn method and requires the serv-
 ices of a physicist Negotiations are
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