Röntgen rays and electro-therapeutics - with chapters on radium and phototherapy (1910) (14757968402)

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Title: Röntgen rays and electro-therapeutics : with chapters on radium and phototherapy
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Kassabian, Mihran Krikor, 1870-1910
Subjects: Electrotherapeutics X-rays Phototherapy Radiology Radiotherapy
Publisher: Philadelphia & London : J.B. Lippincott Company
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School



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e light. Maintain these positions until violent perspira-tion occurs on these parts. This is to be followed by the usual waterbath (70° to 80° F,). Have the patient massaged, and advise him toexercise thereafter. Treatment with the Incandescent Light. The incandescent electric light is poor in violet and blue rays, andrich in yellow, red, and green. Its chemical action is, therefore, slight,but this, as well as its brightness, may be materially increased bystrengthening the current. By this augmentation we not only affect theoptical brightness, but also its blue and violet rays. Of normal power,380 incandescent lamps have the same chemical effect as natural light ata distance of one metre. This form of treatment is of paramount valuewhere the longer-wave rays are to be applied. The modern incandescent baths are made for connection with thestreet electric wires. They consist of octagonal boxes supplied with panesof mirrors, with a movable lid above, for the patients neck. (Fig. 242.)
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Fig. 242.—Cabinet for the treatment of diseases by the emxjloyment of incandescent lights. (Kny-Scheerer Co.)