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Title: American X-ray journal
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Subjects: X-Rays Radiography
Publisher: St. Louis : American X-Ray Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
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e a good deal for its toniceffect upon open surfaces, and had not metwith infection—indeed, it was an excellentantiseptic application. The patient shouldalways be inductively insulated, the dis-charging rods widely separated, and the THE AMERICAN X-RAY JOURNAL. 1176 wooden electrode insulated by a taperingcovering of glass. Dr. Francis B. Bishop expressed theopinion that one reason for Dr. Dicksonsnot having obtained a better effect fromthe galvanic treatment was that his activepole had too much surface for the amper-age employed. Dr. Dickson replied that it had not beenconsidered advisable to use general anaes- Dr. J. D. Gibson said he had curedlupus with the brush discharge alone, butpreferred the x-ray. Cancers which havebeen surgically treated do not respond soreadily to the x-ray. Dr. A. D. Eockwell of New York citysaid the galvanic current and the x-rayrelieved pain by causing a sort of circula-tory drainage, diminishing pressure on thenerve endings. He preferred the so-called
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FELLOWS OF THE ELECTRO-THERAPEUTIC ASSOCIATION.Taken at Hotel Kaaterskill, Catskill Mts., N. V., Sept. 4, 1902, by Dr. Marcus F. Wheatland. thesia, and it was for this reason that this size had been used. Some Therapeutic Notes on the X-Rays. In this paper Dr. Dickson said he pre-ferred the static machine and the highvacuum tube. During the first two weeksof treatment the tube should be one or twofeet from the patient, the distance to begradually reduced to six inches. Dailytreatments are advisable only in criticalcases. The average seance is ten minutes.He had used adrenalin solution and foundthat it intensified the reaction. A vascularnevus was slowly disappearing under thex-ray. Several cases were described. hyper-static current to the brush discharge,and had seen excellent results from its use. Dr. W. B. Snow used a glass shield inclosed cavities, and also glass vacuumtubes, as kathodes with the static machine.He had found the brush discharge fromti e wooden electrode satisfactory

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