. Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation . T^- .. ..^ F/C 3 P. periments show that we are reachinga point even at 1 70,000 volts wherewe may theoretically assume we cankill all the cells in a tumor. ^Xhether this can be accomplishedin practice must wait the clinical appli-cation of such facts as I have remains to be done. We havenot yet accurate data concerning nor-r^il tissue resistance, for example,whether human intestire or other hol-low vis-era will stand four erythemadcses. Will the large potns which arenecessary nermit so great a destructionof normal tissue th^t the
. Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation . T^- .. ..^ F/C 3 P. periments show that we are reachinga point even at 1 70,000 volts wherewe may theoretically assume we cankill all the cells in a tumor. ^Xhether this can be accomplishedin practice must wait the clinical appli-cation of such facts as I have remains to be done. We havenot yet accurate data concerning nor-r^il tissue resistance, for example,whether human intestire or other hol-low vis-era will stand four erythemadcses. Will the large potns which arenecessary nermit so great a destructionof normal tissue th^t the nhenomenadesignated ?s rad .tion sickness neces-■iiy interfere with lur treatment?This, in my experience, has been a veryserious rnatter with a number of pa-t>epts who have practically refusedtreatment »fter a few exposures to anerythema d-se, even t^^ough they realizet^at the is controllin<; an ab-dominal tumor. We have not yet givenrpo-e than four erythcna doses at afitting to a deen seated tumor, th?t islust two thirds the amount renuired tokill t
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