Recommendations of the International Commission on Radiological Protection: Report of Committee II on Permissible Dose for Internal Radiation

Oxford: Pergamon Press Ltd. Pp. xxxii + 233. Price 30s. The history of the radiation hazard is a sad record of ignorance, folly and disaster. For 20 years after the discoveries of Rontgen and Becquerel, X-rays and radium were used freely with little regard for the consequences or even for the prompt and visible damage that they produced.