. A manual of electro-static modes of application, therapeutics, radiography, and radiotherapy . nsidered chalky deposits are true osteophytic enlarge-ments of the bones and usually appear at the last phalangealarticulations, as shown in the accompanying illustration. It is in-correct to consider them of gouty origin, or in any way alliedto gout. There is no cure for the condition when once devel-oped. The application of sparks, as in the treatment of rheu-matoid arthritis, will in most cases relieve the local pain andinflammatory swelling, and render joints otherwise painful con-stantly usefu
. A manual of electro-static modes of application, therapeutics, radiography, and radiotherapy . nsidered chalky deposits are true osteophytic enlarge-ments of the bones and usually appear at the last phalangealarticulations, as shown in the accompanying illustration. It is in-correct to consider them of gouty origin, or in any way alliedto gout. There is no cure for the condition when once devel-oped. The application of sparks, as in the treatment of rheu-matoid arthritis, will in most cases relieve the local pain andinflammatory swelling, and render joints otherwise painful con-stantly useful. The case represented in Fig. 42 has for fouryears received on an average two or three treatments monthly, THERAPEUTICS OF INFLAMMATORY CONDITIONS. 91 going frequently two or three months without suffering ortreatment. The osteophyte enlargements have not increasedin size, nor diminished, since they have been under observation,as is shown in the skiagraph, Fig. 43, which was taken fouryears later than that shown in the preceding cut. Sparks associated with the brush-discharge give the best. Fig. 42. results, and should be administered in frequency according tothe indications. The fourth type of arthritis deformans, of which a skia-graph is shown in Fig. 44, has a unique characteristic inthat only a single finger of each hand is similarly affected, itbeing the corresponding finger on both. This case was in anotherwise healthy patient, an artist by profession, with no his-tory of any other joint affection. The fingers were curved asby equal contraction of the muscles, anteriorly and posteriorly,the fingers at the end phalanx being turned towards the thumband at the middle joint in the opposite direction. The patient 92 STATIC ELECTRICITY. recovered under the treatment given for rheumatoid arthritiswith the finger only partially movable, and in an extendedposition—not flexed. The writer has seen no description of asimilar case, and it cannot be classified with either of the ot
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