. A manual of electro-static modes of application, therapeutics, radiography, and radiotherapy . istinctly redfrom the administration. If after two weeks of this treatmentthe surface still shows a marked degree of infection, the rayshould be again employed as before, and followed by thebrush-discharge. This plan, if pursued, will result, we be-lieve, in curing the affection in the shortest possible time. Ifthe affected area is small, and it is desired to remove it with 274 STATIC ELECTRICITY. the least amount of scarring, the brush-discharge will effect-ually remove the trouble. In the picture
. A manual of electro-static modes of application, therapeutics, radiography, and radiotherapy . istinctly redfrom the administration. If after two weeks of this treatmentthe surface still shows a marked degree of infection, the rayshould be again employed as before, and followed by thebrush-discharge. This plan, if pursued, will result, we be-lieve, in curing the affection in the shortest possible time. Ifthe affected area is small, and it is desired to remove it with 274 STATIC ELECTRICITY. the least amount of scarring, the brush-discharge will effect-ually remove the trouble. In the picture shown in Fig. 13the patient was treated on alternate days for six weeks with thebrush-discharge with the result of absolutely relieving thetrouble, as is shown in Fig. 14. In this case the skin is per-fectly normal, and absolutely no scar remains over the regionaffected. The scar just beneath resulted from curettementand the employment of carbolic acid in a former treatment ofthe case. This same patient was treated on alternate daysfor the affection, as shown in Fig. 15, with the brush-dis-. Fig. 15.—Lupus Vulgaris. charge. The treatment was persisted in for five months witha marked improvement in all respects, except that the lobe ofthe ear remained thick and indurated, and tender to the end of five months, four exposures were made to the THE X-RAY IN AFFECTIONS OF THE SKIN. 275 surface with the X-ray, as above, including the lobe of the ear,when a distinct reaction was produced, and the danger of de-stroying the affected portion of the ear was apparent. Theear was accordingly covered, and the remainder of the facesubjected to three more exposures. In the meantime, the em-ployment of the ultra-violet light daily from a condensingfocus lens using from twenty-five to forty amperes for the arc
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