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The paint that these girls were using was supposed to contain 2.66 mgs
of radio-active material to 100 grams of zino sulphide.
It is commonly reported that some of the girls "fairly ate" the material
and did so because of the feeling that if radium was a oure for Gancer they would
never get it. It has been suggested that the habit of pointing the brush in the
mouth is to blame for the jaw trouble; that particles of radio-active material
became lodged between the teeth or in the roor of the mouth and caused an irrita-
tion that ended in necrosis. This explanation has never proven satisfactory to
us because of the common use of the tooth brush these days and the passage of
fluid through the mouth. If a particle did become lodged in these places tempor-
arily it must have been of such infinitesimal quantity as to maice it seem highly
impossible to cause the irritation necessary to end in necrosis. The gun arabic
used as an adhesive in this work is digested by the saliva in the mouth and would
not hold the sulphide in the mouth. Another theory that has been divanced is
that the particle of radlo-active substance may get into the bone through the
open spaces in the cancellous structure connected with pyorrhea. The X-ray has
shown open cancellous spaces connected with pyorrhea. It might be possible that
during an almost daily exposure some absorption of radio-active particles did
take place just as pus or infectious germs are absorbed in these pyorrheal open
spaces. Statistically this does not seem probable as otherwise we would expect
to find other cases reported among the thousands of girls who had the same general
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