The solution with which I treated him," he pointed to Huldricksson, "I had prepared before I came here, from certain information I had.

It is largely salts of radium and its base is Loeb's formula for the neutralization of radium and X-ray burns.
Taking this man at once, before the degeneration had become really active, I could negative it.

But after two hours I could have done nothing." He paused a moment.
"Next I studied the nature of these luminous walls.

I concluded that whoever had made them, knew the secret of the Almighty's manufacture of light from the ether itself! Colossal! Da! But the substance of these blocks confines an atomic--how would you say--atomic manipulation, a conscious arrangement of electrons, light-emitting and perhaps indefinitely so.

These blocks are lamps in which oil and wick are electrons drawing light waves from ether itself! A Prometheus, indeed, this discoverer! I looked at my watch and that little guardian warned me that it was time to go.