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Title: American X-ray journal
Year: 1903 (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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d by the static machine. Applythe anode breeze to the tender spots first.When the tenderness has disappeared useon the whole of the affected region of thespine a current from the kathode, whichincreases the nutrition of the cord andassists in dissolving the hyperplastic tis-sue.—Ed.) Dear Doctor : A glow lamp held in the hand of the oper-ator with its base resting on the fle>h of apatient on whom the x-rays shine will becomelighted. When the vacuum of a Crookes tube isvery high and hard to operate by the usualconnective conduction thru its interior, strokeits exterior with a piece of blotting paperfrom the positive to the negative extremity.This procedure will cause an inductive actionthru the glass wall and often coax it intofull functional activity. If the vacuum be-comes too high for electrical excitation a pieceof card board carefully balanced upon itssummit will turn round and round impelledby the magnetic vortices in the atmosphere. John T. Pitkin. M. D. CORRESPONDENCE. 252
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Radiograph of Lungs of Andrew G. (See page 118. April No. of this Journal.)Second patient cured by X-Ray in Dr. Pratts Laboratory, 18l»6. Dear Doctor : Male, aged 50, has epithelioma of upper lipof eight or ten years duration. Began treatment April first with a low-vacuum tube and after about twenty treat-ments it began to heal and did nicely for aboutthree weeks, now it is beginning to spread up-ward (would say. however, that the skin be-tween the cancer and eye was of a purplecolor before I began treatment) destroyingonly the skin. I had given him about fifty treatments inall, exposing purple tissue as well as the can-cer, discontinuing treatment on appearance ofmarked redness. Have I made a mistake intreating the devitalized skin as actively as Idid the growth? Please advise me in theAugust number of your Journal. I saw something not long since about theuse of goat lymph in the treatment of thesecases. Is there any virtue in it and wherecan I get it? Yerv truly, \Y. E. T. ; It i-

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