. A manual of electro-static modes of application, therapeutics, radiography, and radiotherapy . Fig. 16.—Showing Marked Improvement. light was instituted. All induration has disappeared, the dis-coloration alone remaining (see Fig. 16). In this patient, thesurfaces have never become ulcerated during the course oftreatment. Otherwise, it would probably have been curedby the brush-discharge, because the antizymotic action wouldthen have affected more deeply the diseased structures. Theresults in the treatment of this case, which had resisted all 276 STATIC ELECTRICITY. measures since infancy, i
. A manual of electro-static modes of application, therapeutics, radiography, and radiotherapy . Fig. 16.—Showing Marked Improvement. light was instituted. All induration has disappeared, the dis-coloration alone remaining (see Fig. 16). In this patient, thesurfaces have never become ulcerated during the course oftreatment. Otherwise, it would probably have been curedby the brush-discharge, because the antizymotic action wouldthen have affected more deeply the diseased structures. Theresults in the treatment of this case, which had resisted all 276 STATIC ELECTRICITY. measures since infancy, illustrate well the various features ofthe technique applicable to the treatment of lupus vulgaris. Lupus erythematosus, of the two types of lupus, is lessprompt to respond to the mixed X-ray, brush-discharge, andlight treatment, but invariably yields. The management andprognosis as to ultimate recovery both are about the sameas in the treatment of lupus .vulgaris. It has been demon-strated in lupus erythematosus that the violet light will suc-. Fig. 17.—Lupus Erythematosus. ceed in curing most, if not all cases; but it is also demonstratedthat the combined employment of the X-ray and brush-dis-charge will effect the same results generally in a shorter periodof time. On the other hand, when the affection involvesmarginal structures, which is less frequent than in lupus vul-garis, or when affecting the parts where it is desirable to pre-serve the hair, the violet light may be judiciously case shown in Fig. 17 had been under treatment for THE X-RAY IN AFFECTIONS OF THE SKIN. 277 seventeen years in the clinics of the best specialists in NewYork, and steadily grown worse. When he first presentedhimself for treatment, the face was covered, as shown, withthick, indurated blotches. There were also three spots in thehair over the occipital region, and the margins of the earwere in an ulcerating condition, and had been already par-tially destroyed. The treatment by the b
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