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Title: A system of instruction in X-ray methods and medical uses of light, hot-air, vibration and high-frequency currents : a pictorial system of teaching by clinical instruction plates with explanatory text : a series of photographic clinics in standard uses of scientific therapeutic apparatus for surgical and medical practitioners : prepared especially for the post-graduate home study of surgeons, general physicians, dentists, dermatologists and specialists in the treatment of chronic diseases, and sanitarium practice
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Monell, S. H. (Samuel Howard), d. 1918
Subjects: Vibration X-rays Diagnosis, Radioscopic Thermotherapy Electrotherapeutics X-Ray Therapy Vibration Diagnosis
Publisher: New York : E.R. Pelton
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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y be exposed to the action of the light,and this, with a minimum of discomfort and without danger of chill.No better reason need exist than the well-being of the patient to leadus to select the cabinet as a means of exposing the entire body to theradiant energy of light, for it is self-warming and superior to an openroom in all cool seasons of the year. That arc-light therapy producessome physiologic effect by reason of its heat-rays cannot be gainsaidin view of the well-established action of heat upon nutrition, and inthe class of cases for which the cabinet treatment is indicated the mod-erate warmth is extremely grateful as well as beneficial. ISTor shouldthe value of the ozone generated be lost sight of. Its physiologicaction is to increase the number of red blood-corpuscles, the haemo-globin, the urea, and to establish nutritive changes, and, therefore, inthe arc-light bath the benefit is not the result of actinic rays alone. * Condensed from the Journal of Physical Therapeutics.
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