Electricity - its medical and surgical applications, including radiotherapy and phototherapy (1911) (14571611918)

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Title: Electricity : its medical and surgical applications, including radiotherapy and phototherapy

Year: 1911 (1910s)

Authors: Potts, Charles S. (Charles Sower), 1864- Richards, Horace Clark Pancoast, Henry Khunrath, 1875-1939

Subjects: Electrotherapeutics Radiotherapy Phototherapy Electric Stimulation Therapy Radiotherapy Phototherapy

Publisher: Philadelphia New York : Lea & Febiger

Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine

Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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Bransford Lewis operating cystoscope. Endoscope.—The endoscope or urethroscope is employed to obtain avisual examination of the mucous membrane of the urethra, and mayalso be used in the treatment of localized areas of inflammation, erosions,infiltration, and inflammation about the urethral follicles, granularpatches, papillomata, and polypi. Such treatment can only be carriedout ))y the aid of this instrument, the lesion being first exposed by it THE ELECTRIC LIGHT AS AN AID TO DIAGNOSIS 185 and then the desired drug being apphed by means of a suitable appli-cator. An example is shown in Fig. 127. That of Fenwick is arranged Fig. 127 Valentines urethroscope. SO that after the tube is introduced the urethra can be inflated withair, thus exposing a long, flat wall instead of a small circle of relaxedmucous membrane, as seen with other instruments. While the best Fig. 128

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