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Title: Radiography, x-ray therapeutics and radium therapy
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Knox, Robert, 1868-1928
Subjects: Radiography Radiotherapy X-rays
Publisher: London : A. & C. Black
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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o more striking testimony to the efficacy of X-rays in therapeuticscould be obtained than the results of treatment of this condition. The writer has treated a number of cases vdth invariably excellentresults. The marked improvement m the condition after a few exposuresis very gratifying. Technique in the Axillce.—The arm is extended and placed over the head,the axilla being fully exposed. A circular aperture is made in a piece oflead rubber protective, and then a piece of lint is laid over the axilla, exposingthe whole of the apex and the axillary hair. The tube-box with the tripodalready described is brought close down to the skin, the apex of the tripod 20 306 RADIATION THERAPEUTICS being on a level with the apex of the axilla. A full pastille dose is given, andat the end of fourteen days another exposure is given, a -5 mm. filter beingemployed for this and subsequent exposures. No improvement is noticeduntil after the second or third administration, when a slight reddening of the
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Fig. 219.—Chronic ulcer of hand of several years duration, showing improvement under X-ray treatment. skin results, there being also shght irritation at this stage. The sweatingslowly diminishes from this stage until a complete cure is obtained, fourapplications being usually sufl&cient to cure the condition. It is better toobtain the result gradually by the above method, though occasionally, whenthe dose has been heavier, a marked improvement may follow the firstexposure. It is also well to aim at a partial effect only ; a slight degree ofsweating is practically a normal condition, and is what should be attained.If the sweating is completely stopped, a dry condition of the skin may follow, THE TREATMENT OF ENLARGED LYMPHATIC GLANDS 307 which may be troublesome. It is frequently noticed that the axillary hairis not completely epilated, which rather suggests that less than a full ery-thema dose is sufficient to destroy a large percentage of the sweat glands.The hands and feet may

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