Some Quantitative Aspects of the Biological Action of X- and Gamma-raysSome Quantitative Aspects of the Biological Action of X- and Gamma-rays. By ScottC. M., M.D., issued by Medical Research Council, Special Report Series No. 223, London, 1937. A volume of 99 pages. Price: 1 shilling, 6 pence.

Radiology ◽  
1938 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 138-139
Keyword(s):  
Medical Research ◽  
Gamma Rays ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Medical Research Council ◽  
Biological Action ◽  
Special Report

scholarly journals The delayed lethal effect of radium on tissue cultures in vitro

1930 ◽  
Vol 106 (741) ◽  
pp. 44-49 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Research ◽  
Gamma Rays ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Medical Research Council ◽  
Lethal Effect ◽  
Tissue Cultures ◽  
Extensive Investigation ◽  
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The following experiments were made in order to study the delayed lethal effect of gamma rays on tissue cultures vitro, using two different quantities of radium sulphate as the source of irradiation. The work forms part of a more extensive investigation into the causes of the destruction of certain types of new growth by means of radiotherapy. The expenses in connection with this study were met by a grant from the Medical Research Council, and my thanks are also due to the Radium Beige and Messrs. Watson & Sons for the loan of the radium employed.

A Note on the Generic Name of the Spirochaete of Syphilis (Treponema pallidum Schaudinn, 1905)

Parasitology ◽  
1926 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 368-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clifford Dobell
Keyword(s):  
Medical Research ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Medical Research Council ◽  
Treponema Pallidum ◽  
Special Report

In a note which I contributed in 1918 to Special Report, No. 19 of the Medical Research Council, I attempted to show that the “correct” generic name of the spirochaete of syphilis—according to the Rules of Nomenclature—is Spironema Vuillemin, 1905. The premisses from which this conclusion was drawn were briefly set out in the publication cited, and need not be repeated here: but my argument—put very shortly—was that, since the Spirochaetes are Bacteria, and not Protozoa, their nomenclature must be determined by the Botanical Rules, not those of Zoology; and that of the three generic names proposed for the spirochaete of syphilis in 1905, Spironema has priority, and must therefore be accepted. (Spironema was proposed by Vuillemin in June, Treponema by Schaudinn in October, and Microspironema by Stiles and Pfender in December, 1905.)

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