In 1945, Silverstone offered a postgraduate course in radium therapy, the first organized course on the subject in the United States, but radiation therapy soon shifted to safer radioactive isotopes, like cobalt-60.
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An anesthesia department was added in 1953 with the physicians-anesthesiologists working for the Hospital; a Volunteer Auxiliary was formed in 1954; radium therapy on a regular basis was begun in 1955; surgery, the delivery room and the top floor of the Hospital were air-conditioned and living quarters for residents and their families were completed in the former Nurses'Home.
