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) (14570476199)

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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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refuse operative interference at a time when relief orcure is possible. Case 2 began in a very similar way to the one just described.This man was seen February 20, 1907. He was a farmer, 50 yearsold. Besides the ulcer shown in the illustration, he had the char- 278 PRACTICAL ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS AND X-RAY THERAPY acteristic pearls on his face, neck, and hands. The ulcer was aboutthe size of a silver dollar and very painful, causing him great dis-tress. This ulcer rapidly healed under x-ray treatment, but, be-cause of the horny growth of epithelial tissue mentioned, this manwill again have malignant ulcers at the site of these scaly patches.They may, of course, recur on the site of the old ulcer, though nomore likely to form there than elsewhere. Should such a destructiveprocess begin, a very mild series of x-ray exposures will suffice tostop the development. Case 3 represents the condition of a patient 47 years old, whohad a srrowth about 2 inches in diameter located on the inner side

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Fig. 117 —Second-degree caucer. and below the right eye. The tumor had been of slow growth, cov-ering a period of about eighteen years. Some months before shewas seen necrosis began in the center of the growth, which beganto break down, became offensive, and caused considerable pain.After twelve x-ray exposures, Marsdens paste was applied to theraw surface and the tumor destroyed well down through the integu-ment. The wound healed nicely and appeared to be well, but onclose examination the tissues back of the eye were found to be in-volved. The eye, with much of the surrounding tissue, was re-moved. The operation was followed by active x-radiation for someweeks, and so far there has been no evidence of return. X-RAY THERAPY 279 Fig. 117 illustrates a case of second-degree cancer that is remark-able for the area involved. This man was a farmer, 44 years old.The main ulcer (1) was rather deep and measured iy2 inches longby about % inch wide, raw and bleeding. A section from this casec

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