1. USE OF RADIUM IN FIFTY CASES OF UTERINE HEMORRHAGE: FROM CAUSES OTHER THAN CARCINOMA OR MYOMAS
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CLARK, S. M. D.
- Abstract
Radium being comparatively a new agent, it is premature to take the position that it has yet reached its maturity or possibilities. As all innovations do, it is now running the critical gamut. In one camp it is unconditionally condemned, while in the other it is equally acclaimed. Where such contention exists the truth is found in the midway position.Though radium is yet in its developmental period, and though already we have abandoned some of our earlier fondest hopes, still, in the past five years, there have been deduced certain well established clinical facts.Menstruation is a complex process influenced by innumerable factors, ranging from undeveloped organs, defective endocrines and new growths down to constitutional dyscrasias. In many instances its derangement is a local expression of a constitutional condition; therefore it is most difficult correctly to divide cases of uterine bleeding, of these types, into segregated pathologic groups. In
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- 1919
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