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Very Good. Volume 1 only, 795 pages, with index and references. An unusual collection of innovative therapies, including: "Vacine and Serum Therapy" (pages 125-183), by Francis Carter Wood (1869-1951) who was an American cancer researcher, a pioneer in the use of X-rays and radium for treatment of cancer. This book is published the year the American Cancer Society was founded. Wood was called an "international authority on cancer and a pioneer in the use of X-rays and radium. He is credited with many basic discoveries in principles of radiation; "Organotherapeutics" (pages 66-119), by Reid Hunt a pioneer in American pharmacology. Curiously the term is mentioned nowhere in the biographical National Academy of Sciences monograph by E. K. Marshall, Jr., except in the bibliography of contributions to books. Hunt defines it as the ancient practice of the use of organ derived therapeutic substances, and addresses modern applications; "Toxicology" by Victor Vaughan, on the actions of mineral and vegetable poisons; "Hydrotherapy and Balneolgy" by William Maloney; "Massage" by Charles Taylor and "Mechanotherapy" by Charles Ricksher both with illustrations; "Electrotherapeutics" by William benham Snow; "Radium Therapy" by the pioneering Canadian radiologist, William H.B. Aikins; and "X-Ray Therapy" by Sidney Lange; and "The Principles of Medical Climatology" by Henry Sewell---among other articles.
