Practical electro-therapeutics and X-ray therapy - with chapters on phototherapy, X-ray in eye surgery, X-ray in dentistry, and medico-legal aspect of the X-ray (1912) (14753961191)

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Title: Practical electro-therapeutics and X-ray therapy : with chapters on phototherapy, X-ray in eye surgery, X-ray in dentistry, and medico-legal aspect of the X-ray

Year: 1912 (1910s)

Authors: Martin, James Madison, 1866-1947

Subjects: Electrotherapeutics X-rays Diagnosis, Radioscopic Eye Electric Stimulation Therapy X-Ray Therapy Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures

Publisher: St. Louis : C.V. Mosby

Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine

Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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ent neces-sary is to overcome constipation where it exists, and keep the skinas clean as possible with tar soap. Acne rosacea will yield to x-ray treatment in a very short time,when the exposures should be continued at irregular intervals untila cure has been effected. Hypertrichiasis (Excessive Hairiness.)—The author has neverrecommended the use of the x-ray for the removal of hair from theface in either men or women. To successfully remove the hairpermanently requires something more than mere tanning of theskin, and this may produce a slight degree of atrophy, which shouldbe avoided in conditions where the treatment is not absolutely neces-sary. Women who possess a beard or a few stiff hairs may havethem removed by electrolysis; the method is slow, but is to be pre- X-RAY THERAPY 251 ferred to the x-ray. Where there is only an exaggeration of fine,downy hairs which are not unsightly, the lady should be discouragedin having anything done to remove them, for, if she persists, she is

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Fig. 110.—Aggravated case of acne vulgaris. likely to find some one who will injure her face with some remedywith which he is little acquainted. There are cases of excessive hairiness that require treatment, andwhen located on other parts than the face the x-raj? may be safelyused to remove these hairy growths. Fig. Ill well illustrates such 252 PEACTICAL ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS AND X-RAY THERAPY a ease. This young man had long been annoyed with the hairextending from his head over the neck and well down the back.In this picture will be noticed the checkered appearance of the skinon the back of his neck. This was caused by a physician who scar-ified the skin in this manner, and then applied some caustic prepa-ration that blistered the skin thoroughly. The undertaking wasnot a success; the hairs were destroyed along the lines of incision, butnowhere else. He was deeply humiliated because the sears added to h ■-—K. . ,„._-..,.- i- ill BB»7 Sp^fT/ J i / y- ■ w iM£&- I m &

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