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name has not been made public, for the maintenance of twenty beds 

 for Cancer patients. The hospital was chartered for the study and 

 treatment of cancer and allied diseases, and is supported by the 

 ColHs P. Huntington fund. This institution has been affiliated with 

 Cornell Medical College and a great deal of research has been done. 

 Abundant opportunity will be given to trained men for the study of 

 Cancer at the bedside and, for the first time, New York has an insti- 

 tution similar to those established in Berlin, Heidelberg, Paris, Lon- 

 don, Boston, Buffalo and St. Louis, 



Radium notes. Radium bed unde. Budapest. Dr. Wesselsky, 

 Professor of chemistry at Budapest University, believes that there 

 are vast radium strata under Budapest and that the high temperature 

 and healing virtues of the Budapest thermal Springs are due to the 

 radium in these strata. Dr. Wesselsky has found that the thermal 

 Springs of Budapest are five or six times as rieh in radium as the 

 most celebrated foreign Springs. According to him, the water of 

 the Budapest Springs contains 35 mg. of radium in every 10 liters of 

 water. 



Opening of a new radium Station in the Vienna General Hospital. 

 A very important addition to the therapeutic armamentarium of the 

 Vienna General Hospital has been made by the opening of a radium 

 institute as an annex to the dermatologic clinic of Prof. Gustav 

 Riehl. This " radium Station " is intended primarily for the treat- 

 ment of patients in the hospital but it will also be open to medical 

 practitioners outside the hospital, to whom a number of " radium 

 cells " will be loaned and water charged with emanation will be sold. 

 The Station owns half a gram (7^ grains) of pure radium Com- 

 pound, valued at about $50,000, which has been presented by the 

 ministry of public works from the radium establishment in Joachim- 

 stahl (page 509). The "Station" will be self-supporting and any 

 net profit will be devoted to its enlargement. A special research 

 department will soon be added. 



Radium institute for hiologic and therapeutic research in Berlin. 

 The institute founded by the efforts of Prof. Wilhelm His for bio- 

 logic and therapeutic research on radium in the royal Charite was 

 opened recently. The purpose of the institute is the investigation of 



