. 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 . had formed and was causing con-siderable pain. This new condition caused some alarm, and he ap-plied for treatment. On examination it was found that the tissuesaround the ulcer were hard and dense over an area 3 inches in di-ameter. He refused all surgical interference from the start. After 286 PRACTICAL ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS AND X-RAY THERAPY eight x-ray exposures to a medium vacuum tube the epithelium wasdestroyed with caustic pot
. 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 . had formed and was causing con-siderable pain. This new condition caused some alarm, and he ap-plied for treatment. On examination it was found that the tissuesaround the ulcer were hard and dense over an area 3 inches in di-ameter. He refused all surgical interference from the start. After 286 PRACTICAL ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS AND X-RAY THERAPY eight x-ray exposures to a medium vacuum tube the epithelium wasdestroyed with caustic potash over an area 4 inches in diameter anda plaster of Marsdens paste applied to the whole surface, usingsufficient cocain to make it bearable. The plaster was allowed to re-main twenty-four hours, after which flaxseed poultices were applieduntil the slough came away. X-ray exposures were given everysecond day during the healing stage, and the final results were allthat could be asked for. There is no scar to mark the location ofthis ugly and painful tumor, nor is there any contraction or otheruncomfortable feeling in the muscles of the neck, so common after. Fig. 124.—Epithelioma of the temporal region. surgical methods for the same conditions. It was the location ofthis growth that made the plaster treatment possible. Had it beenon some other part of the body where the surrounding glands wereinvolved, nothing short of a thorough surgical section would havebeen of any benefit. These dense, hard growths are very stubborn,and prone to return unless the treatment is radical and thorough. Fig. 124 teaches a lesson that every man who attempts to treatthis class of cases should learn early—i. e., do nothing unless youare prepared to do it thoroughly. At the time this picture was madethe author insisted on his having a thorough, radical operation per-formed, to which he agreed. The operation was not thorough, and, X-RAY THERAPY 287 while he had active x-ray treatment, in six weeks
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