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Title: 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
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Monell, S. H. (Samuel Howard), d. 1918
Subjects: Vibration X-rays Diagnosis, Radioscopic Thermotherapy Electrotherapeutics X-Ray Therapy Vibration Diagnosis
Publisher: New York : E.R. Pelton
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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Platk 253.—Local Spinal Application of Hot-Air hy Sprague Method. Showiag patientreversed on chair with canvas hood directing high-degrees of dry heat to lumbar region. At-tendant is noting thermometer.
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STUDIES IN HOT-AIE THEKAPY 565 required, and free movemeiit of the part (or entire patient) must becompatible with absolute protection from metallic contact or liabil-ity of any kind of burning or overturning. Speaking generally, theapparatus should be so constructed that with ordinary care a patientneed never experience the slightest discomfort, and danger of acci-dent be completely eliminated. Any machine, large or small, localor general, that does not meet these indispensable requirements willbe a constant source of uneasiness and dissatisfaction to the practi-tioner himself, and will not confer on the patient the whole benefithe ought to receive. The novice can hardly avoid applying this treatment to someunsuitable cases: nor can the expert at all times predict the resultof treatment in advance, but practice and study reduce the per-centage of failures from this cause. Study the limitations of scien-tific thermsero-therapy as well as its main usefulness and eke outits action by ju

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