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 (14754741014)

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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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of light, ordinarily slow, be madeto destroy bacteria quicMy? The first question has been decided by the elimination of green,yellow, and red rays, and what are now known as the chemical raysare accepted as the main therapeutic agency in this treatment. Thesecond question opened many difficulties which have been partlysolved by electricity, lenses, and mechanical devices, but the futureof photo-therapy in private practice will rest on the further develop-ment of facile, simple, and effective apparatus, of which the recentnascent stage of construction was the promise rather than the sub-stance. Light-rays are certainly therapeutic, but the use of them willappeal to average therapeutists only when they present a ready, sim-ple, inexpensive, and effective means of securing results that arebeyond methods already installed in common use. The value of re-sults so far demonstrated has been somewhat impaired in the estima-tion of the general profession because of the difficulty of the treat-

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Plate 193.—This plate shows the sun-lens on the table, and the attendant holding thecompressor on the lesion. A scene in Finsens Institute. It is more than probable that,cheap as sunlight is, when it can be had, yet new strides in vacuum-tube light at low cost willdisplace all other mechanism in photo-therapy. Such a picture as this will become historicaland reminiscent.

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