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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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und to be in-volved. The eye, with much of the surrounding tissue, was re-moved. The operation was followed by active x-radiation for someweeks, and so far there has been no evidence of return. X-RAY THERAPY 279 Fig. 117 illustrates a case of second-degree cancer that is remark-able for the area involved. This man was a farmer, 44 years old.The main ulcer (1) was rather deep and measured iy2 inches longby about % inch wide, raw and bleeding. A section from this caseconfirmed the diagnosis of epithelioma. He had a number of epi-thelial pearls about his face. The ulcer began a number of yearsago higher up on the side of the face, gradually working its waydownward, getting larger all the time. During the first series oftreatments he was given nine exposures in as many days. He wassent home and allowed to rest fourteen days, after which he returnedand received five exposures as before. In three months time theulcer had entirely disappeared, as seen in 2, taken at the time hewas dismissed.
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Fig. 118.—Cancer of the face. Fig. 118 is a fairly good illustration of this case before (1)and after (2) treatment. The ulcer was about iy2 inches in diam-eter and had been more than two years in forming. It had painedhim considerably, though the pain was never great at any time.No pathological examination was made in this case, for there couldbe no question about the diagnosis. He received thirty x-ray ex-posures, twenty during the first and ten during the last course, al-lowing six weeks to intervene. The second picture (2) was made 280 PRACTICAL ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS AND X-RAY THERAPY more than a year after the last course of treatment and speaks foritself. There is no sear to mark the location of the ulcer, and theskin is soft and normal. The subject of Fig. 119 was an old Confederate soldier, who hada number of horny epithelial growths on his face, with which he hadbeen afflicted for about twenty years. About ten years before hewas seen an ulcerated area slowly began to form ab

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