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Title: Principles of electro-medicine, electrosurgery and radiology : a practical treatise for students and practitioners. With chapters on mechanical vibration and blood pressure technique
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Matijaca, Anthony
Subjects: Vibration Electrotherapeutics X-rays Blood pressure Electric Stimulation Therapy X-Ray Therapy Electrosurgery
Publisher: Butler, New Jersey Tangerine, Fl. New York City : Published by Benedict Lust
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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nsformer. Pfahler uses sole leather filter, and to this he adds aluminum fromone to three millimeters in thickness. This is about the standard, as itis at present used. The absorption power of one millimeter of purealuminum is shown to be equal to that of a layer of water or soft tissueof approximately one centimeter in thickness. After-treatment.—If the treatment has been given to a deep-seatedorgan, or if the skin is unbroken, no dressing is required, but if an ul-cerated area has been treated, a good dressing must be applied. Electro-Medicine, Electro-Surgery and Radiology 127 In order to prevent spreading of infection, the protective covering, orany other appliance which comes in contact with the patient, must bethoroughly sterilized before further use. Dangers of the X-rays The Roentgen, or X-rays, if administered in excess, produce at firstdermatitis, which, if the treatment is continued, may pass on to ulcer-ation, and sometimes the ulcerations may develop the so-called X-ray
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Fig. 77—Rear view of Fig. 76. cancer, when surgical assistance is required. This may occur in eitherpatient or operator. The symptoms of over-exposure to the X-rays are: itching, burning,redness, swelling, pigmentation, loosening of the hair, etc. If these ap-pear, the treatment must be immediately discontinued, unless it is de-sired to produce dermatitis. These symptoms may appear at the time of exposure, or from a fewhours to several weeks after exposure. In most cases, however, thesymptoms appear in from three to fifteen days after exposure. 128 Anthony Matijaca The inflammatory effects produced by the X-rays upon the tissues aredivided into four classes: First: Dry dermatitis, which, if properly produced, is harmless ifthe part affected is not irritated with the application of strong chem-icals (especially carbolic acid, which of itself may cause gangrene),and if let alone will subside of itself; Second: Dermatitis with the formation of vesicles and blebs, butwithout deeper envo

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