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Title: Practical electro-therapeutics and X-ray therapy : with chapters on phototherapy, X-ray in eye surgery, X-ray in dentistry, and medico-legal aspect of the X-ray
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Martin, James Madison, 1866-1947
Subjects: Electrotherapeutics X-rays Diagnosis, Radioscopic Eye Electric Stimulation Therapy X-Ray Therapy Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures
Publisher: St. Louis : C.V. Mosby
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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f slight derma-titis over the inguinal region the author had reason to believe thatthere had been a secondary infection from chancroidal virus. Fum-ing nitric acid was applied over the entire surface of the denudedarea, with almost magical results. Fulguration and the ultraviolet rays are of great benefit in a large X-RAY BURNS DERMATITIS 407 number of cases. The pain and itching are sometimes entirely re-lieved after a single treatment. The belief that cancer will follow an x-ray dermatitis is whollyunfounded. Cancer has followed a few cases of chronic x-rayburns, but there is no evidence that cancer is any more liable to fol-low an x-ray burn than any other irritation. The chronic form of dermatitis is seen, almost entirely, in x-rayoperators and manufacturers who work daily in the x-ray field.They finally develop a condition that is chronic and incurable.Both gentlemen of the firm of Green & Bauer, tube manufacturers,Hartford, Connecticut, were badly burned while making and de-
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Fig. 218.—X-ray dermatitis. veloping their excellent tubes. In conversation with Mr. Greenrecently he informed the author that when Mr. Bauer discoveredthat he was dangerously burned he gave up the business in orderto get away from the x-ray influence, but lived only a few months.Mr. Green advanced the belief that if Mr. Bauer had remained inthe work, with a lessened exposure to the rays, he would probably beliving. As evidence he showed me the remaining effects of his ter-rible burns, stating that they were more severe than those of his asso-ciate, Mr. Bauer, and he believes that had he, also, discontinued thework he would likewise be dead. He explained that he personallytests every tube that leaves his factory, and that for at least two 408 PRACTICAL ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS AND X-RAY THERAPY seconds he is in the active field of each. Should Mr. Green be cor-rect in his views, mild x-ray exposures will benefit all cases of x-rayburns. This would agree with the homeopathic theory, and

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