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stences is dengerous and should be reduced to e minimum,
and that the thereapeutic use of these substences by internal
administration, either by way of the mouth, or by inhalation,
or by intravenous or intremusqular injection may be highly
dangerous and is not warranted in any medical condition, as
none of the known redioastive substances produce eny ourative
results.
"It should be emphasized, that the disastrous results
cited in this paper are not to be confused with the legiti-
mate use of external irrediation by means of the X-rays and
radium, such as ia used for the treatment of malignancy in
hospitels and institutions specializing in and competent to
handle such treatments. The deleterious effects and hazards
of external, penetrative, non-aocumulntive Irradiation are
well recognized and have been reduced to a minimum by proper
technic."
He concludes:
"Since there is no evidence indicating any beneficial
results from the drinking of waters containing emanation,
except physoic ones, there is scientifie evidence that
radon is not free from danger, their use should be forbidden.
The human race will not suffer if they are eliminated.
"It would appear that the intravenous injection of
long-lived radio-active elements, or the internal adminis-
tration of radium, mesothorium, or rediothorium, is highly
dangorous on account of the late: harmful effects. As
previously stated, end hexe repeated for emphasis, it is
not warranted in any medical condition, as none of the
known radioactive substances produce any specific or
curative result.
These, then, were red flags of warning to the medical profession.
They appear subsequent to the year 1925. But if the defendant is to be
denied the protection of the statute of limitations, the plaintiff's
cese must be based upon the proposition that the defendant should have
known of the harmful effects during the period from 1917 to 1920.
If it is assumed that a ceuse of action existed in this case in
favor of the decedent ageinst the defendent, 11 must have accrued
sometime in the course of her employment in 1917, 1918, or 1920, at the
latest, when she wns last exposed to the radium. It is unnecessary, if
not impossible, to determine the exact date. The question has not been
raised but, at any rate, 1f the action arose on the lest day of her
employment, the statute would have normally barred her remedy sometimes
in 1922 which is at lesst two years before radium necrosis was dis-
covered and over seven years before she was diegnosed.
It appears, from a cereful consideration of all the evidence, that
no one had considered the effect of the radium substences on the
workers in this comparatively anall and commercially unimportent occu-
pation. There was much conflicting opinion in the minds of the
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