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was nothing of a distinctive feature which they could
ascertain from examination, and the examination was very
thorough, lasting for two hours, that would differentiate
this case from any other case or that would lead them to
think or have the slightest i dea that it was due to radium.
The doctors have such knowledge of radium as men of their
profession usually have. They have not specialized in
radium treatments. They do know that men of their profession
who do spe cialize in the use of radium, give it to patients
orally, intraveinously and intramuscularly for the treatment
of various diseases and it is believed that it has a bene-
ficial effect on many diseases such as arthritis, cancer,
acute rheumatism, ansemia, etc.
If the doctors are asked the direct question
as to whether or not they can or cannot ascri be the condition
they found to radium poisoning, they would say that prior
to 1924, or to that date, that these cases came up, that
no one heard of radium poisoning; that there is apparently
at the present time no definite literature on the subject
and that unless something can be shown to them differentiating
these cases from the ordinary case of bad teath, they could
not ascribe this to radium poisoning. Furthermore, there is
no knowledge in the medical profession known at this time by
men who have sufficient care and treatment and follow up
a radium case, in which case a distinctive and diagnostic
difference between infection by radium poisoning or the
ordinary infection as we find it in this run of cases.
Speaking as a physician in active practice for
many years, I can say that there is no authentic medical
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