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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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28-i PRACTICAL ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS AND X-RAY THERAPY growth beneath the ear was more than 2 inches thick, and so painfulto the touch that the slightest manipulation would almost drive thepatient into a spasm. This man was being rapidly hurried throughthe maelstrom of malignant infection and tissue disintegration,where death would soon have put an end to his earthly existence. The third picture (3), three years after treatment, is a perfectrepresentation of his present appearance. This man has a treach-erous skin, which is likely to cause him much trouble in after lifeif he neglects conditions that are sure to arise. As the result ofsunburn and other sources of irritation, scaly patches will develop
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Fig. 122.—Epithelioma on the back of the hand. from time to time, which, if allowed to continue, will eventuallyprove fatal. If this man will use the proper care, returning occa-sionally for a few x-ray exposures, he may live to an old age en-tirely free from cancer and its accompanying horrors. Fig. 122 represents a second-degree cancer on the back of the handof a patient who has passed the meridian of life. This was a hard,horny growth about % inch across and about % mcn thick. Aftersix x-ray exposures to a low vacuum tube, Marsdens paste was ap-plied and the growth destroyed down through the integument.X-ray exposures were continued until an active first-degree derma-titis was produced. By the time the dermatitis had disappeared, X-RAY THERAPY 285 the ulcer had entirely healed, and there is today no evidence of agrowth of a malignant nature. This is one of many similar condi-tions the author has seen on the back of the hand. They all haveabout the same history in common, starting

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