. 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 . STUDIES IN HOT-AIR THERAPY 553 put on the bath robe and slippers. When all is
. 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 . STUDIES IN HOT-AIR THERAPY 553 put on the bath robe and slippers. When all is ready ask the patientto walk to the side of the machine, raise the top, place the woodencover over the metallic side-arm to protect the patient from the hotcontact and have him sit on it (or below it), and, with a side-swingof the body neatly achieve a full length dorsal decubitus on the couchwhich forms the bed of the apparatus. This non-conductor couchis at first cool and heats very slowly. Do not let a patient enter amachine in which the mattress has been allowed to remain hot. Thebody does not like a superheated hed. Always see that the mat iscool. Now remove the slippers and leave the feet bare. Have the patients head project out of the machine according tothe needs of treatment. If you wish to treat the lower tissues mainlylet the head come well out so as to clear the field of heat and keepcool easier. If you need to heat the upper thorax, or reach the shoul-der, for instance, let the head be only just
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