. A treatise on electrolysis and its applications to therapeutical and surgical treatment in disease . as noticed that immediately after thecurrent began to pass through the circuit, the tumor would entirelyshrink away, leaving the skin shrivelled. During the subsequent day theskin around the punctures would become slightly cedematous, and at thenext visit the size of the tumor had noticeably decreased. The patientwas then discharged with the expectation that the subsidence of the en-largement would continue as in the preceding case. The final disappear- TREATMENT IN EX< MMI II [ A Ml If Tk
. A treatise on electrolysis and its applications to therapeutical and surgical treatment in disease . as noticed that immediately after thecurrent began to pass through the circuit, the tumor would entirelyshrink away, leaving the skin shrivelled. During the subsequent day theskin around the punctures would become slightly cedematous, and at thenext visit the size of the tumor had noticeably decreased. The patientwas then discharged with the expectation that the subsidence of the en-largement would continue as in the preceding case. The final disappear- TREATMENT IN EX< MMI II [ A Ml If Tkl. 241 once of the goitre should no1 be expected to occur in adults for three orfour months after the discontinuance of the electrolysis. It is noi neces-sary to continue thetreatmenl until the lasi vestige of the tumor 1ms gone,because when once arrested its decrease will g on spontaneously. Thetreatment was concluded at the time of going to press. The accompany-ing woodcut taken from a photograph represents (Fig. 31) the appear-ance of the tumor at the close of treatment by 31. -After treatment by electrolysis. It will be noticed that the position of the head in this photographwas more erect than in the first (Fig. 30, page 234), and that the chinis depressed; consequently the skin over the tumor is not tense. Theengraver has not presented the details shown in the photograph, so thatthe marginal outlines of the lateral portions of the tumor do not appearin this last figure (Fig. 31). The difference in appearance betweenthese two photographs is very marked, showing that the goitre had beenvery materially reduced in size. A ease of a supposed goitre, and which afterwards turned out to be a sarcomatous tumor was not even arrested in its growth. Electrolysis is not applicable to malignant growths, except when used as thermo-cautery for a separation of diseased from the adjacent healthy tissues very much in the same way as can be done by the CHAPTER X.
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