. Electricity in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat . withthe arc, and the whole area with a;-ray, for five min-utes, once a fortnight. For lupus, there may oftenbe other better modes of treatment. Very encour-aging results have been obtained by the irradiationof trachoma. In the treatment of struma and Basedows Dis-ease, one or two irradiations of five minutes seem tobe sufficient to produce therapeutic results. USING THE X-EAY WITHOUT BURNING. Albert C. Geyser writes:—All methods of dos-age are fallacious, because they cannot take intoconsideration the idiosyncrasy of the patient. Two
. Electricity in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat . withthe arc, and the whole area with a;-ray, for five min-utes, once a fortnight. For lupus, there may oftenbe other better modes of treatment. Very encour-aging results have been obtained by the irradiationof trachoma. In the treatment of struma and Basedows Dis-ease, one or two irradiations of five minutes seem tobe sufficient to produce therapeutic results. USING THE X-EAY WITHOUT BURNING. Albert C. Geyser writes:—All methods of dos-age are fallacious, because they cannot take intoconsideration the idiosyncrasy of the patient. Two and a half years ago, a tube was perfect-ed which I have named the Cornell Tube. When 160 THE X-EAY. the tube is brought into contact with the patient,only the ionizing effect of the ic-ray is exerted, andthis is all that is needed to furnish the most bril-liant therapeutic results. During the past two and a half years, this sys-tem has been used at Cornell Medical College, and,in over 5,000 applications, not a single case of der-matitis has Fig. 85.—Cornell X-Ray Contact and Cavity Tube. (This is a small focus tube, through the terminal end ofwhich the rays are projected; the rest of the tube being made oflead glass to prevent any transmission of the rays.) A METHOD OF DEEP EOENTGEN lEKADIATION WITHOUTINJUEY TO THE SKIN. Dr. Alban Hohler, of Wiesbaden, says :The following is a description of a method forintroducing considerable doses into the deeper tis-sues without injury, and for securing protectionagainst Eoentgen burning. By irradiation without a filter, we are in danger DEEP IRRADIATION. 161 of burning the skin and producing severe ulcera-tion; whereas, if a filter is used, although we areenabled to introduce the rays without injury to theskin, they are so much reduced in intensity that theyexercise a stimulating rather than an inhibiting anddestructive influence on the organ. I shall endeavor to describe a method, by which,the dose could be increased fif
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