A system of instruction in X-ray methods and medical uses of light, hot-air, vibration and high-frequency currents - a pictorial system of teaching by clinical instruction plates with explanatory text (14753965961)
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Title: A system of instruction in X-ray methods and medical uses of light, hot-air, vibration and high-frequency currents : a pictorial system of teaching by clinical instruction plates with explanatory text : a series of photographic clinics in standard uses of scientific therapeutic apparatus for surgical and medical practitioners : prepared especially for the post-graduate home study of surgeons, general physicians, dentists, dermatologists and specialists in the treatment of chronic diseases, and sanitarium practice
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Monell, S. H. (Samuel Howard), d. 1918
Subjects: Vibration X-rays Diagnosis, Radioscopic Thermotherapy Electrotherapeutics X-Ray Therapy Vibration Diagnosis
Publisher: New York : E.R. Pelton
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School
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STUDIES IN HOT-AIR THERAPY 557 and benefit by beat, differs just about as cases differ in respect todosage of drugs and electricity. As the mercury rises watcb it andask the patient if it still feels good. Coax it up to just the pointwhere he ceases to say that the hotter it gets the better it feels, andthen hold it there if it becomes comfortable, or slightly reduce it tocomfortable general tolerance. But if the thermometer shows that a therapeutic degree of heatis not yet reached when the patient reports intolerance, do not acceptit as the proper dose as in the former case. Knowing about what thedose ought to be and failing to reach it with comfort, examine the partcomplained of and ascertain the cause of intolerance. If the skin isirritable in a local area cover it with a folded towel. If the cause isgeneral and can hardly be attributed to the state of the skin look else-where. It may be that the head has not been kept well cooled. Itmay be due to a too-recent meal, or to some dera