Contribution de l'étiologie du cancer
Publisher Information: Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1927.
Contribution à l’étiologie du cancer. 12pp. 4 colored maps (2 folding). Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1927. 315 x 243 mm. Original printed wrappers, a bit soiled and creased, small splits at spine, small chip in lower corner of front wrapper. Very good.
First Edition. Lakhovsky, a Russian-French engineer, believed that cosmic rays and other forms of radiation were a major factor in the etiology of cancer. The present monograph, according to its subtitle, examines “the influence on the nature of soil on cosmic rays and the development of cancer”; it is illustrated with four maps showing the distribution of cancer cases in Paris and other regions of France. Lakhovsky is best known for inventing the Multiple Wave Oscillator, an electrical device used in the treatment of cancer that supposedly filtered out harmful cosmic rays.
Book Id: 52336Price: $650.00