. American X-ray journal . ghteen months afterthe disease began. A full conception ofthe depth can not be had from the picturebecause at the time the picture was takenthe ulcerous excavation was packed withgauze. The flesh had sloughed from theside and back and to within three inches ofthe spine. The axilla wTas undermined al-most to the glenoid cavity. The breast thathad not fallen off was hard and was crusty and had the appearance of drygangrene. Ulcerous nodules abound over and tube was used exposing the affectedparts, ten minutes each, thirty minutes inall, the first sitting
. American X-ray journal . ghteen months afterthe disease began. A full conception ofthe depth can not be had from the picturebecause at the time the picture was takenthe ulcerous excavation was packed withgauze. The flesh had sloughed from theside and back and to within three inches ofthe spine. The axilla wTas undermined al-most to the glenoid cavity. The breast thathad not fallen off was hard and was crusty and had the appearance of drygangrene. Ulcerous nodules abound over and tube was used exposing the affectedparts, ten minutes each, thirty minutes inall, the first sitting. The tube was a Ger-man make adjusted to give visual radiationof the carpus two feet, the patient one footfrom the tube. The patient immediatelyimproved physically. With a few excep-tions the treatments were daily till thetwentieth exposure when she wTas suddenlyattacked with hypostatic pneumonia anddied on the twenty-ninth day afterthe firsttreatment. The wound had wholly ceasedto slough, odor had long since ceased, pain. the chest and back while the base of thevast area that had sloughed away was paleand smooth. The patient was carried toDr. Robarts office almost moribund. Shewas too weak to talk. Her pulse was tooFrequent and weak and irregular to course the case had been abandoned asinoperable. An optomistic uncle insistedthat she be treated so long as she surgery had ever been done. Greatmasses of dead flesh were adherent to theedges of the ulcer. The discharge wasprofuse and the odor most foul. The coil was gone, the wound was healing at manyplaces about the edges: at one place it hadfilled in nearl3T one inch. Her sleep,strength, appetite and appearance hadgreatly improved. The picture was taken two weeks beforedeath and is reproduced to show how abody can compensate and live with so ex-tensive decaying tissue; and also to showthat notwithstanding the nearness to deaththe x-rays gave demonstrated hope whenall other procedures known to man hadfailed. TH
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