Several analogies of Ford lemma for topological algebras (in particular, for topological *-algebras) are proved (without using projective limits). Topological *-algebras, in which a self-adjoint element a with sp(subscript A)(a) (0;∞) has a self-adjoint square root b with sp(subscript A)(a) (0;∞) and spA(h1 +...+ hn) [0, ∞), if sp(subscript A) (hk) [0;∞) where hk are self-adjoint elements for each ∈ {1,...,n}, are described.