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 (14570456190)

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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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Plate 261.—Wrapping the body in Turkish towelling for treatment of either lumbar region or abdomen.

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Plate 263.—Showing application of dry heat to chest fur bronchitis, pleurisy, pneumonia, etc. STUDIES m HOT-AIE THEEAPY 573 power over disease. The capabilities which it has so far manifested,and we have as yet only begun to investigate them, are sufficientlyweighty to justify belief that dry heat of high degree is destinedto become a therapeutic agent of as great popularity as it possessesdiversified applicability. (Skinner.) Dr. Skinner also discusses the aid of hot air in pneumonia, inwhich it is indicated and effective only as regards local lesions. Hesays: The indications for hot air are: 1. To relieve pleuritic pains as a substitute for opiates, to whichit is superior. 2. To relieve the harassing cough instead of sedatives, to whichit is superior. 3. To relieve the heart from the strain of massive exudate in-stead of alcohol, digitalis, strychnine, etc., to which it is superior,primarily and secondarily. I have never seen any shortening in the duration of the disease.The chara

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