. Radium . ntinuously, and itwas protected with adhesive plaster or by a bandage. Various ointmentsand lotions were tried. Phenol seemed to afiford most relief. In July, a fissure appeared on the middle finger of the left hand at 122 Kadiuim the site of the earUer serious lesion. This was exposed to mg. ofradium in a platinum-iridium needle for twenty minutes, and it healedabout August ist. At this time he applied a similar mg. needle ofradium to the old fissure in the right thumb for twenty minutes. Thiswas not so successful, and the fissure persisted unhealed. About August20, this le
. Radium . ntinuously, and itwas protected with adhesive plaster or by a bandage. Various ointmentsand lotions were tried. Phenol seemed to afiford most relief. In July, a fissure appeared on the middle finger of the left hand at 122 Kadiuim the site of the earUer serious lesion. This was exposed to mg. ofradium in a platinum-iridium needle for twenty minutes, and it healedabout August ist. At this time he applied a similar mg. needle ofradium to the old fissure in the right thumb for twenty minutes. Thiswas not so successful, and the fissure persisted unhealed. About August20, this lesion suddenly became much more painful, keeping him awakeat night using a bath of^phenol ever>^ hour. The fissure remained the samesize, but the surrounding tissue became more prominent. The patientwent to the seashore, September i, where he soaked his hands in thesea water all the forenoon and exposed them, especially the sore thumb,to direct sunlight all the afternoon. At night he put on a dressing wet. 1 771 TTl. Pig. 3.—Second sijecinien: small artery almost surroundedby nests of tumor cells; arterial wall thickened, and thelymph spaces in the media distended; this change corre-sponds to the vacuolizing degeneration of Gassmann, de-scribed bv him (Fortschr. a. d. Geb. d. Rontgenstrahlen 2:199, 1898-1899) as a characteristic arterial lesion in roent-gen-ray dermatitis; the close relation of the new growthto a vessel of this size is significant of the deep infiltrationwhich has taken place. with a solution of sodium hypochlorite (hyclorite), which seemed to re-lieve the burning. This was continued for the first two weeks of Sep-tember, during which time the lesion became transformed to a flat ulcerabout lo mm. square, much larger than before and just about as painful. September 14th, he returned to Xew York. A dram of scarlet redointment mixed with an ounce of olive oil was applied for twenty-fourhours. The pain at once became worse, and overproduction of granula-tion ti
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