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Jansen H (1910). Behandling med Radiumemanation særlig ved gigtiske Lidelser [Treatment with radium emanation especially with rheumatic diseases]. Ugeskrift for Læger 72:1333-48.
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Translation
In experiments of radium emanation therapy in rheumatic diseases I chose to give patients [radioactive water] to drink, partly because this treatment was so simple and easy to carry out [compared with radioactive baths], that even moderately favourable results would be of great value, and partly because this method of application would be “cleaner” than alternatives, since the small amount of distilled water in which the emanation was dissolved could not by itself influence the patients. Any changes in their condition - for better or worse - could only be attributed to the radium emanation applied, insofar as one could exclude chance, suggestion and the effect of other changes occurring at the same time, such as hospital admission, bed rest, altered diet, etc.
Translation
That the reactions, to be mentioned below, did not occur by chance, but were caused by the medication, is vouched for, by, amongst other things, the constancy with which they occurred, and because [the timing of] the improvements seen in a number of patients were related to the treatment in such a way that it would be far-fetched to regard them as having occurred by chance.