. Röntgen rays and electro-therapeutics : with chapters on radium and phototherapy . much attention. In the first, the virus was exposed in vUro tothe action of the radium rays ; in the second, animals were inoculated inthe eye, or sciatic nerve, or under the dura mater with virus, and thepart was then exposed to the rays, an hour a day for eight days. Theresults indicate that the radium rays destroy the virus of rabies both invitro and in the living animal. Noevus.—Hartigan* reports a case of nsevus successfully treated byradium bromide. The first was a large port-wine nsevus affecting thewho
. Röntgen rays and electro-therapeutics : with chapters on radium and phototherapy . much attention. In the first, the virus was exposed in vUro tothe action of the radium rays ; in the second, animals were inoculated inthe eye, or sciatic nerve, or under the dura mater with virus, and thepart was then exposed to the rays, an hour a day for eight days. Theresults indicate that the radium rays destroy the virus of rabies both invitro and in the living animal. Noevus.—Hartigan* reports a case of nsevus successfully treated byradium bromide. The first was a large port-wine nsevus affecting thewhole of one cheek in a woman of twenty-six years. The treatmentlasted nine months, during which time thirty-nine exposures were given,varying from half an hour to an hour. The nsevus entirely disappeared, ^Journal of the American Medical Association, July 21, 1906. * Archives of the Eontgen Ray, March, 1905. 3 Riforma Medica, Palermo and Naples, last indexed vol. xliv. p. 1818. * British Journal of Dermatol, December, 1904 ; Treatment, April, 1905. 508 ELECTRO-THEEAPEUTICS. ^/;,.. with ihe exception of a few untreated areas. The amount of radium usedwas 10 milligrammes. Usually within twenty-four hours an erythema oc-curred, followed by vesicles, which fell off as scabs in a few days, leavingbehind a thin white skin. Radio-Active Treatment toith —Tracy ^ illustrates the radio-activity of thorium and calls attention to its anti-fermentative suggests two methods of using radio-activity in tuberculosis. One isby using a saturated solution of nitrate of thorium in a large shallow re-ceptacle. A slight current of air can be caused to pass over the solutionfrom a compressed air tank, while the patient is inhaling. With thenitrate of thorium there may be more or less free nitric acid ; this must be neutralized by passing the emana-tions, before inhalation, through a wash-bottle containing a saturated solution ofsodium bicarbonate. The more satisfac-tory way, he
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