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Plaintiff argues that the administration of radium by pro-
scription under the supervision of physicians WELS not to be com-
pared with the exposure by ingestion, inhalation, etc., suffered
by the workers. This is undoubtedly true, but plaintiff seoks to
charge that defendant should have known of the great danger from
the literature of that tine. A great deal of the literature, as
heretofore stated, described the advantages and benefits to be
derived from the administration of radium, the existence of which
furnished an indubitably disarming influence as to the dangera attend-
ant to its effect.
It was true in 1917, as the plaintiff states, that radium had
been known to have a fatal effect on humen beings; that medical
and scientific non would profer to experiment on animals rather than
persons to determine its effects under different conditions; that
it was not used in treatment of certain diseases because of contra-
indications; that the dial peinters vere ingesting radium and its
emanations under conditions far difforent from its modical use;
that the dial workers would have been partly protected by certain
devices and changed working conditions; that some literaturo may
have suggested the chance of hazard in the occupation and the re-
quirement for constant or frequent medical surveillance; that there
were less dangerous methods of dial painting in use in Europe which
could have been e dopted, and that there vere no e xpériments con-
ducted or being conducted in 1917, or prior thereto, to determine the
effect of dial painting.
what has been said as to the evidence before the court may
not be accurate from an expert's viewpoint. It was not so intended.
The object or the narrative was to present the situation in the
best light for the plaintiff aince the court is of the opinion
that rolier must be denied to the plaintiff on his own s tatenent
of f acts. Indeed, it is doubtrul if an accurate picture of the
knowledge existing in 1920 concerning radium could be Arawn even
by experts. The learning of that time was so solored with con-
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