Therapeutic Radiology

The comprehensive title of this small volume is not reflected in its pages. A more definitive title would be "Roentgentherapeutic Methods Now Pursued at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston." The preface states these limitations accurately. Now that therapeutic radiology includes the use of beta and gamma irradiation at various voltages of gamma x-ray and many different radium procedures and even artificial radioactivity, one could hope for more under the book's title. Mention of radium therapy is meager except for a few pages on authoritative radium methods for carcinoma of the cervix. Again, there is a tinge of apology in the observation that "radiation as a curative measure is limited to a rather small group of patients, and this group is becoming smaller as medicine and surgery advances." An accusation that the authors seem to avoid discussion of the comparative values and methods of radium therapy in oncology is supported by