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Sixty-fouii patients attended for radium treatment during the past year, whereas sixty-three attended during the previous year. Of these forty-two were in-patients and twenty-two were out-patients. The war seemed at first to have the effect of diminishing the number of patients desiring radium treatment, but afterwards the number increased. As compared with the year 1914, there is a rise in the number of in-patients and a diminution in the out-patients. Twenty-four of the patients suffered from inoperable malignant disease, nineteen from rodent ulcers, nine from exophthalmic goitre, and four from ncevi. Of the malignant cases sixteen were carcinomas and eight were sarcomas. As is well known, more benefit is to be expected from the use of radium in the latter class of cases than in the former. Myeloid sarcomas in particular yield very readily to radium, and when they are so situated as to be capable of being efficiently rayed the complete disappearance of the growth may be anticipated (vide Case VI.). Of the carcinomas, those situated in the vagina or cervix appear to be vulnerable to

Report ON THE RADIUM TREATMENT AT THE ROYAL INFIRMARY, EDINBURGH, DURING THE YEAR 1914