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Show OGDEN DOCTOR GETS RADIUM Remarkable Mineral Acquired For Treatment of Ogden Og-den Patients Hadium that wonderful mineral with the remurkable powers of healing. heal-ing. In addition to being wonderfully expensive at three and one-half millions mil-lions of dollars an ounce has found Its way into Ogden for the first time. The Initial consignment of the mineral made its debut in Ogden yesterday when lr. E. P. Mills, Ogden surgean and physician with offices in the Lewis Lew-is building, received two tubes, ' containing con-taining approximately twelve and one-half one-half milligrams of real radium The mineral, which is contained In tiny alloy steel needles of special construction, con-struction, will be used by the Ogden physician in the treatment of the m.iny diseases which radium has effected ef-fected cures. The mineral is particularly particu-larly valuable. Dr. Mills said, in cases vn hi re operation is impossible, but where the tiny needles can be used to advantage in reaching the affected organs of the body 9 I HTs TRE I Ml I In the majority of cases, however. I It was explained that no injection of the needle Is necessary, and the use of the mineral Is gained simply In placing the needle in a rubber tube and applying It to the portion Oi tin-body tin-body which has been attacked by dls-I dls-I ease. Although the radium arrived only yesterday, the physician explained that he already is treating S patient who Is fufferlng from golt r by application ap-plication of the tube to the neck XX ki n IN WEED! I 5 The radium In Its raw state cannot be seen for the reason that It Is locked within the steel needle which filters onl certain ruvs. The needle Is contained con-tained In a brass lube which eliminates elimin-ates other rays and the needle with Its brass covering is kept within a lead bottle. The rays, however, are always radiating anil no metal discovered so far can withhold their entire penetration. pene-tration. It was said. The big bulk of the radium contained con-tained in the world comes from the mines of eastern L'tah and western Colorado. It takes uproxlmately two tons of radium ore to extract one milligram. milli-gram. There Is not more than five ounces of radium In the entire world. urn- grain of radium. Dr Mills said, will give off tWO-mlUlon rays each second sec-ond of time for 1700 years. At the end of this period the -ruln will he reduced re-duced but one half in Its pewer. The velocity of radium rays is ten times that )f light Or. Mills will keep hN radium tubes In a safety deposit box during the periods they are not In use. oo |