Röntgen rays and electro-therapeutics - with chapters on radium and phototherapy (1910) (14755766134)

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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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d to render such alater procedure less aseptic; it is therefore a part of wisdom to removeat once any diseased glands and to fulgurate their site. The effect of thespark on normal and pathological tissue and on micro-organisms is, asyet, suh judice. The lymphorrhoea assists, by draining the lymphatics ofmigratory cancer-cells, and by bringing to the area of the disease amyriad of beneficent leucocytes. At the same time it carries with itor destroys colonies of unfixed cells. What is the cause, then, asks De Keating-Hart, of the inhibitionof the growth of these larger nodules after fulguration ■? Although in myfirst operation, surgical ablation was often far from complete, I gotresults better than could have been hoped for. I have had cases whichremained cured for years, although neoplastic nodules have remained, asproved by subsequent clinical examinations. He then cites a number ofcases, not the least interesting of which and illustrative of the others,are the ones here subjoined :
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»50URCE OF HIGH FReaUENCY CURRENT Fig. 67a.—Diagrammatic view of Keating-Harts method of fulguration. The illustration showsthe passage of the current from the resonator to the electrode, and also the connection with this electrodeof a spiral tubing through which is pumped a constant stream of cool sterilized air, so as to decreasethe intensity of the temperature of the tissue. (Arch. dElectricite Medicale.) ELECTRODE STRAIGHT ELECTRODE A CURVED ELECTRODE A CURVED ELECTRODE. RIGHT ANGLE (SHORT) ELECTRODE, RIGHT ANGLE (LONG) Fig. 67B.—Keating-Harts electrodes for fulguration. HIGH-FEEQUENCY CURREN^TS. 139 ■ A woman suffered from a recurrent growth of the breast after twosurgical operations with numerous secondary cutaneous cancerous nodules,with swollen glands in the axilla, and swelling of the arm and hand,accompanied by profound cachexia. After curetting the tumor andapplying fulguratiou the lesions cicatrized, the swelling of the arm wentdown, and perfect health returned. Now