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Title: Journal of radiology
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Radiological Society of North America American College of Radiology and Physiotherapy
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Publisher: Omaha, Neb., : (Radiological Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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applica-tion of the x-rays I removed asmall fragment of the tumor forlaboratory study, and received areport from Dr. Lester Neuman the remnant of the cervix wasrepresented by a small granulat-ing surface corresponding to theinternal os from which there wasa muco-purulent discharge. Thethickened walls of the cul-de-sacmade examination of the uterusdifficult, but it could be quite Page Thirly INTRA-VAGI XAT. T) I ERAPY—M ERRITT readily found retro-displaced andnormal in size. For a case thatseemed hopeless in April the re-sults so far are very gratifying. Treatment: The patient wasadmitted to Garfield Hospital,May 25, (920, and received intra-vaginal x-ray treatments fromthen to November 8, 1920, at through skin areas—four anteriorand four posterior—was resortedto with the ordinary deep therapytechnique at the usual intervals.The very definite improvement inthe appearance of the growth atthe time of the second intra-vag-inal raying leaves no room fordoubt that the malignant cells
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Fig. II.—View looking from the head toward the feet,showing the method of suspending the legs in slingsand the method of taking care of high-tension wires. were rapidly responding to therays directed into the vagina, asthe cross-firing from without waswholly varying intervals—a total of onehour and 50 minutes unfilteredx-ray from a Coolidge tube pass-ing 6 ma. at an anode cervix dis-tance of 12 inches, back up aneight-inch gap for 15 and 20 min-utes at each treatment. In addition to this, cross-firing Page Thirty-one inadequate in this briefperiod to have excited any mate-rial change. The intra-vaginal treatmentswere followed bv nausea identical I NT R:\-V AGINAL THE R AIY—M KRRITT with the well-known x-ray sick-ness, and rather more apparentthan when treatments were giventhrough skin areas. The resultswere all that could be expected.There was a return to normalweight, a normal blood picture,and a general feeling of well-be-ing. three pounds, now weighing morethan ever before. T

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