Radium is so precious therapeutically and so expensive that when a hospital loses its bit the loss stirs the community. Canton, Ohio, was thus excited last week by the disappearance of a quarter-inch tube of radium worth $5,000, at Aultman Hospital. Hospital officials sent for Professor Samuel James Mclntosh Allen of the University of Cincinnati to help them find it.
For Ohio's Cantonese, Professor Allen did a miracle. He brought with him an instrument which consisted of an ebonite stick to which were fastened two slips of gold leaf. It was an electroscope....
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