. American X-ray journal . result obtained in this caseis shown by the photograph taken twomonths after beginning treatment. I have treated three other cases all ofwhich show improvement, but are notyet well. I regret that owing to the fact that thesections made from the cases reportedabove were poorly preserved, the pathol-ogist was unable to make a satisfactoryexamination. The cases were shown,however, to the Dermatological Societyof Philadelphia, on May 21, when noquestion was raised as to the Kascher, one of the resident physi-cians, very kindly made the photographfor me. I a
. American X-ray journal . result obtained in this caseis shown by the photograph taken twomonths after beginning treatment. I have treated three other cases all ofwhich show improvement, but are notyet well. I regret that owing to the fact that thesections made from the cases reportedabove were poorly preserved, the pathol-ogist was unable to make a satisfactoryexamination. The cases were shown,however, to the Dermatological Societyof Philadelphia, on May 21, when noquestion was raised as to the Kascher, one of the resident physi-cians, very kindly made the photographfor me. I am not the first to use this method of 9^2 THE AMERICAN X-RAY JOURNAL. treatment, but began independently, be-fore I had read the only report alreadymade. The literature on the subject is verymeager, and consists of a few isolatedpreliminary reports from men who havebegun the treatment at about the sametime, and apparently worked independ-ently. The first report that I find on recordis that by Johnson and Merrill, of Wash-. ington D. C, published in the Phil-adelphia Medical Journal, December 8,1900. They began treatment September6, 1S99, upon a man who had a re-current epithelioma of the left were made every other dayuntil fifteen were given. The first result of the treatment wasa diminution in the secretion and afirmer crust. Six months later a healthyscar had replaced the ulcer. Their sec-ond case was an epithelial cancer of thenose, the diagnosis being confirmed bymicroscopical examinations. Treatmentwas begun February 17, 1900. Ex-posures were made on alternate days often minutes each. Treatment had to beinterrupted twice on account of der-matitis, but in six weeks nearly the en-tire growth had been replaced by healthytissue. Since this report has been pub-lished I learn that they have treated anepithelioma of the lower lip, a recurrentcarcinoma of the breast in which theynoticed lessening in pain and slightdiminution of the size of the tumor, alsotwo cancer
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