. A system of instruction in X-ray methods and medical uses of light, hot-air, vibration and high-frequency currents : a pictorial system of teaching by clinical instruction plates with explanatory text : a series of photographic clinics in standard uses of scientific therapeutic apparatus for surgical and medical practitioners : prepared especially for the post-graduate home study of surgeons, general physicians, dentists, dermatologists and specialists in the treatment of chronic diseases, and sanitarium practice . ; lithsemia; durationabout two years. Uric acid found in the blood and urine.
. A system of instruction in X-ray methods and medical uses of light, hot-air, vibration and high-frequency currents : a pictorial system of teaching by clinical instruction plates with explanatory text : a series of photographic clinics in standard uses of scientific therapeutic apparatus for surgical and medical practitioners : prepared especially for the post-graduate home study of surgeons, general physicians, dentists, dermatologists and specialists in the treatment of chronic diseases, and sanitarium practice . ; lithsemia; durationabout two years. Uric acid found in the blood and urine. No lesionof the joints; extremely nervous; neuralgic pains all over the bodyand limbs. Daily hot-air baths for two weeks, then three times aweek for four weeks. No uric acid in the blood at the last examina-tion. (Kessler.) Heat in the Diagnosis of Pus.—Lewin, of Berlin, claims that by thelocal application of heat we can detennine whether or not a localinflammation, as appendicitis, has gone on to suppuration. If thepus has not formed heat will comfort the patient. If pus is presentheat will so increase the pain that a diagnosis of suppuration can bemade with confidence. In cases of swelling of the knee, rheumatic or otherwise, fixationand heat usually give relief, but if pus is present pain is augmentedand becomes intolerable. Lewin has tested this action of heat ina number of cases sufiicient to assure him of its diagnostic significance,and cites ten cases of appendicitis in which hot compresses were ap-. Plate 263.—Application of dry heat to right slioulder of patient. Canvas sleeve fittedto conduct heat to the local part.
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