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 (14757074215)
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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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.—Raying a Case of Pulmonaiy Tuberculosis. Tlie camera has made the tubeappear too high. Level the axis of the rays directly upon the diseased area. The plate showsthe operator inspecting the progress of the disease with the fluoroscope. In a systematiccourse of treatment expose the back of the patient at one sitting and the front at the nextsitting, and alternate at successive seances. A chair with an open back to support thepatient should be used. Photographed exclusively for this work by Dr. Jicinsky, who reports: J. H., agetwenty-six, fluoroscope shows slight haziness over both apices ; anode focussed directly upondiseased area ; tube twelve inches from surface of body; exposure ten minutes at first fourtimes a week, then three times a week. Used improved German tube and ten-plate Staticmachine. After two months treatment patient had gained ten pounds. Night sweats ceased ;coughed no more. Regulated personal hygiene, but gave no medication. Feels improved andhazinessnearly gone.
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