. A system of instruction in X-ray methods and medical uses of light, hot-air, vibration and high-frequency currents : a pictorial system of teaching by clinical instruction plates with explanatory text : a series of photographic clinics in standard uses of scientific therapeutic apparatus for surgical and medical practitioners : prepared especially for the post-graduate home study of surgeons, general physicians, dentists, dermatologists and specialists in the treatment of chronic diseases, and sanitarium practice . Plate of the Os Calcis. (Rcbman, Ltd.) ^TUBERCULOSIS AND X
. A system of instruction in X-ray methods and medical uses of light, hot-air, vibration and high-frequency currents : a pictorial system of teaching by clinical instruction plates with explanatory text : a series of photographic clinics in standard uses of scientific therapeutic apparatus for surgical and medical practitioners : prepared especially for the post-graduate home study of surgeons, general physicians, dentists, dermatologists and specialists in the treatment of chronic diseases, and sanitarium practice . Plate of the Os Calcis. (Rcbman, Ltd.) ^TUBERCULOSIS AND X-RAY THERAPY 451 forms of efficient electricity. If tlie rays are merely an indirectnutritional agent without specific influence upon the bacilli the au-thor considers that we have more flexible, various, and effective thera-peutic resources in galvanic, static, and high-frequency electric cur-rents than in the attenuated discharge which is associated with thephenomena of X-rays. But this opinion will not be maintained ifevidence to the contrary is established. This chapter will now closewith a recent report from a physician whose results should inducemany to investigate the subject. My attention was first called to the possibilities of its use intuberculosis three years ago by the relief that was found by thepatient on making a radiograph of a tubercular knee-joint. I madean exposure of ten minutes with the inefficient apparatus then in use,and got a good negative, but the surgeon wished a different viewand
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