Röntgen rays and electro-therapeutics - with chapters on radium and phototherapy (1910) (14571623579)

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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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X-rays. The diagnoses were madeclinically and pathologically, l^o auto-intoxication occurred. Djemil Pasha, of Constantinople,* reports that a case of sarcoma ofthe breast seemed rather aggravated by treatment. Dr. W. B. Coley ® treated 68 cases of sarcoma. He obtained completedisappearance of the tumor in five of them. Dr. Russell H. Boggs treated five cases of sarcoma. In two of themthe growth was reduced in size, but improvement was temporary. Later,both patients died. G. G. Burdick * treated 34 patients ; 18 are considered cured. Thetumors disappeared completely and are giving no trouble whatsoever. ^Quoted by Dr. G. Oram Ring, The Value of X-Rays in Ocular Therapeutics,Journal American Medical Association, September 29, 1906. 2 Ibid. ^New York Medical Journal, April 7, 1906. * Journal of Advanced Therapeutics, 1904, p. 648. * Revue de Chirurgie, Paris, xxv., No. 1.® Annals of Surgery, August, 1905. Transactions of the American Rontgen Ray Society, 1905, p. 115.»Ibid., p. 112.
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Pig. 232.—Sakcom.v of the Leg.—1 and 2 show areas of recurrence ; 3 indicates the part that I irradiated