Röntgen rays and electro-therapeutics - with chapters on radium and phototherapy (1910) (14778153713)

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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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Fig. 22sB.—Method of treathig carcinoma of the breast.
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Fig. 228C.—Method of treating affections of the cervical glands. THERAPEUTIC VALUE IN DISEASE. 465 to the use of iuefficieut apparatus aud to errors iu diagnosis (benigngrowths being mistaken for malignant ones), which point to the impera-tive necessity of examining microscopically, before, during, and afterirradiation, sections or scrapings of the growth. The vacuum of the tube is a matter of prime importance, especiallyin treating the deeper-seated cancers ;—ie., the vacuum should be high inorder to allow of a deeper penetration. In the body cavities,—as themouth, rectum, vagina, etc.,—I believe in the direct application of therays, and not by special cavity tubes. Probably we err too much on the side of safety ; apparently thestances are too brief, we too often fearing the production of a severe typeof dermatitis. An erythema or slight dermatitis is unavoidable; percontra, it is ad^^sable as indicating the particular individual tolerance.I do not endorse the Continental met