. 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 . rone 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 t
. 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 . rone 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 time there wasevidence of return. The surgeon removed the cancerous tissuewith a curet and cauterized the surface with Paquelins active x-ray exposures were given afterward, but we will prob-ably be defeated in this case because the primary operation was notas thorough as it should have been. When this case returned thethird time, about three months after the operation, the malignanttissue had developed so rapidly that a farther treatment was outof the question. We can not understand why so many physicians keep this class. Fig. 125. Epithelioma of the chin. 1, before the treatment was begun; 2, one year after the patient was dismissed. of cases on indifferent treatment so long when it is plain to be seenthat they are getting worse every day. We know that many phy-sicians are wide-awake and always looking after the welfare of theirconstituents, but too often they are responsible for these late anddangerous conditions by allowing the victims to put off active treat-ment until too late. Fig. 125 illustrates an advanced case of cancer of the chin, inwhich case radical surgery and the x-ray scored a victory whereeither alone would have failed. The subject of this illustration hadbeen the rounds that are usually traveled in an effort to find a 288 PRACTICAL ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS AND X-RAY THERAPY cheap cure, with the result that he was very much wo
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