Medical Electrology and Radiology: An International Monthly Review, Volume 31902 |
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Page 211 - That this action in many cases of even far advanced and inoperable malignant disease may result in the total disappearance of the tumors, often without any breaking down of the tissues, the new growth being apparently absorbed. 3. Whether the patients have been cured, or the disease has been merely arrested...
Page 211 - ... often without any breaking down of the tissues, the new growth being apparently absorbed. (3) Whether the patients have been cured, or the disease has been merely arrested, to reappear at some future date, is a question that time alone can decide. (4) Recent observations and experiments upon the various forms of carcinoma and sarcoma prove that an agent supposed to be of value only in a limited class of superficial epitheliomata promises to be of as great or even greater value in practically...
Page 60 - ... individuals. A shield of lead must be fastened around the area to be irradiated in non-malignant disease, and especially if the face is concerned. It may be attached by a bandage. To the uneven surface of the margin tinfoil or a piece of cork may be added. Corresponding with the area to be irradiated a hole is cut in the shield. In the treatment of neoplasms, however, the use of a shield is improper since it is intended to have the influence of the rays extend as far as possible.
Page 59 - I would regard it extremely unwise to leave to the rays what can be done much quicker and more effectively with the scalpel, namely extensive removal. But irradiation should be considered in the after-treatment as well as in inoperable cases.
Page 131 - Reduction in the size of the growth. (3) Establishment of the process of repair. (4) Removal of the odor, if present. (5) Cessation of the discharge. (6) Softening and disappearance of lymphatic nodes. (7) Disappearance even of lymphatic enlargements not directly submitted to treatment and often at some distance.
Page 77 - CONSERVATIVE GYNECOLOGY AND ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS. A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Women and Their Treatment by Electricity. By G. BETTON MASSEY, MD...
Page 59 - Rays, Philadelphia and London, 1900. The tissue change taking place in neoplasms is also of the nature of a chronic inflammation. The nutrition of their superficial strata is disturbed, the cells starve, and if overirradiation is continued, necrosis may be the result. Thus we understand the curative influence on lupus, carcinoma, and sarcoma, especially if these neoplasms are confined to the integument. Successful treatment of lupus is reported by many. To the cases published by me previously I may...
Page 233 - There is reason to believe that the currents act in these cases in the following manner : "Firstly, on the tubercle bacilli themselves by making them pursue the same course as if they were under the ' X-Rays. According to the experiments of Drs. Forbes Ross and Norris Wolfenden, in their paper on the 'Effects produced in Cultures of Tubercle Bacilli by Exposure to the Influence of an X-Ray Tube...
Page 240 - A test-tube filled with water and connected with the negative pole of a Coil, the positive pole being earthed. With this apparatus Brush-discharges can be obtained equal to those of Oudin's apparatus. The Brush-discharge is useful for wide-spread areas of disease, and in the case of nervous people. Spark-discharges can be applied to more circumscribed areas. Treatment with the " electrified hand " is another spark method, but a very mild one.
Page 78 - PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS. Its Modern Prophylaxis, and the Treatment in Special Institutions and at Home.