Röntgen rays and electro-therapeutics - with chapters on radium and phototherapy (1910) (14755920444)

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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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the Operator. For his own protection, the operator should never use his hand totest the intensity of the rays. While the patient is undergoing treat-ment or examination, the operator should be in a communicating roomor behind a lead screen or in a sentry box, where he can observe thefluorescence of the tube from a mirror suspended at a convenient anglefrom the ceiling. The best place for the operator to have his lead pro-tection, is behind the anode. The absence of the operator from the roomis always advisable because its atmosphere becomes ionized by the rays. 408 ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS. To discover the presence or absence of the rays, tlie operator may-employ an electroscope or photographic plate, and wherever they aredetected that region is unsafe for the operator. (Fig. 210.) The Crookes tube should be covered with an opaque rubber shield,or, as some recommend, with lead glass containing an interval of ordinaryglass, for the passage of the rays. Miiller paints the active hemisphere
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iSpark-gap regtulaio) g Fig. 210.—Authors scheme for the operators protection. with a black opaque material and employs diaphragms of various sizes.The operator should still further protect himself by wearing specialopaque rubber gloves and an apron, the latter to prevent injury to thetesticles. Spectacles of lead glass are worn by some to protect the eyes.It is far better, however, for the operator to be out of the room and dis-pense with such protecting devices. G. Tkeatment of X-Ray Dermatitis. Treatment of the acute form may be similar to that employed in anyother acute inflammation of the skin. Slight erythema may disappear within a few days, but when theirritation is excessive and accompanied by intense itching, soothing rem-edies, as, zinc oxide ointment, compresses of ice, boric acid, etc., may beemployed. When the vesicles burst and the skin resembles the lesionof pustular eczema, a warm normal salt solution proved soothing andefficient in one of my patients. Carbolic acid,