37 8 A HISTORY OF 



Griffith very generously subscribing another 1000. 

 Other subscriptions were received in response to an 

 appeal made to the members, and in a short time the 

 Radium Committee was in a position to conclude a 

 contract for 200 milligrammes of radium bromide, 

 which has since been delivered to the Society. In 

 the meantime the small quantity in the Society's 

 possession has been in constant use. The emanation 

 it produces is pumped off at certain intervals, in 

 the Society's laboratory, purified by means of liquid 

 air, and transferred to minute glass tubes which are 

 handed over to the surgeon for therapeutic use. 

 Already new methods in the manipulation and appli- 

 cation of the emanation have been devised, and the 

 results obtained in its therapeutic application are most 

 encouraging. Though the quantity of radium in the 

 Society's possession is still very small, it will admit 

 of a more extended use of this remarkable substance, 

 which has proved to be one of the most potent agents 

 that science has placed in the hands of man for the 

 relief of human suffering. 



