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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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< a PP 2 -^ S S STUDIES IN HOT-AIK THERAPY 581 plied for two hours each. Eight were benefited, but two had marked increase of pain and terminated fatally. In a case of perimetritis with ) aggravation instead of the usual relief from heat a large quantity V of pus was later discharged from the vagina. Sphor of Frankfort cites fifteen cases of appendicitis in which the reaction to local heat confirms this conclusion. In the use of hot-air apparatus as well as the common routines of heat this possible explanation of non-relief should be kept in mind, and the presence of pus excluded before going on with the treatment. Hot-Air Apparatus for Use in Bed.—According to Eriedlsender ofWiesbaden in his classical review of all forms of baths the SweatBath in Bed occupies an intermediate place between the modernDry Hot-air apparatus and hot vapor cabinets. A satisfactory meansof administering in bed a general hot-air bath of from 180° to 300°F. is the portable Hot-Air Apparatus of Dr. Noel

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