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) (14777015783)

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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

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e chin, inwhich case radical surgery and the x-ray scored a victory whereeither alone would have failed. The subject of this illustration hadbeen the rounds that are usually traveled in an effort to find a 288 PRACTICAL ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS AND X-RAY THERAPY cheap cure, with the result that he was very much worse for his ex-perience. The case was referred to the author for preliminary x-raytreatment by Doctor W. W. Samuell, of Dallas. After the usualnumber of exposures he did a very thorough operation, in whichmuch of the soft tissues, a part of the inferior maxillary, and thesublingual and the lymphatic glands of the neck were removed.X-ray treatment was resumed immediately after the operation andcontinued until the wound had healed. The patient disappeared,and nothing was heard from him for more than a year, when, whileon a business trip to Dallas, he called on the author. His conditionat that time, as seen in the second picture (2), was sound and well, asfar as could be determined.

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l. Fig. 126.—Epithelioma of the lower jaw. Fig. 126 illustrates a case similar to Fig. 125. This woman hadbeen the victim of advertising cancer cures. The illustrations arenot very good, but will serve to impress the reader with her desper-ate condition and the radical means necessary to get the proper re-sults. This case was treated in the same manner as the one describedin Fig. 125, the only difference being in the operation, which wasmore radical. The entire inferior maxillary was removed, and thesection was so thorough that it seemed impossible that her face could X-RAY THERAPY 289 ever again look like a human face. She made a slow, but unevent-ful, recovery, and when seen two years later there was no evidenceof a return. The illustrations shown in Fig. 127 (1, 2, 3) represent a

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