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Title: X-ray dosage in treatment and radiography
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Witherbee, William Daniel, 1875- Remer, John, 1862- joint author
Subjects: X-rays Radiography X-Ray Therapy Radiography
Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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han any other living cell. The tonsilconsists mainly of lymph tissue. The small fibroidtonsil so commonly associated with rheumatismcontains lymph follicles, the greater part of whichis embryonic tissue as evidenced by the mitoticfigures. The embryonic tissue in the follicles ofthe large lymph tonsil is considerably less than isfound in the fibroid tonsil. The remainder of thetissue in these follicles consists of mature lympho-cytes. Therefore it is possible to use very smalldoses of x-ray to promote the absorption of thelymphatic element of the tonsil which will in noway interfere with any of the surrounding andadjacent cells or glands. From the viewpoint of infection the shrinkage ofthe tonsil and lymph tissue of the lateral and pos-terior walls of the throat (Fig. 2) by x-ray will THROAT INFECTIONS 47 produce a drainage and relieve the distortion ofthe crypts throughout the entire mucous mem-brane which is impossible by any known operativeprocedure. Out of thirty-six cases in which
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Fig. 4.—This table eliminates the danger of overheadhigh tension wires, and is especially adapted to the treat-ment of children. The adult dose consists of the followingfactors: Five and a half inch spark gap, five milliamperes,ten inch distance, five minutes time, with two mm. ofaluminum as filter. Time of exposure diminished in pro-portion to the age of the child. specimens from the crypts were taken thirty-twoshowed an absence of hemolytic streptococcusand hemolytic staphylococcus. This coincideswith the results which have so long been obtainedin acne vulgaris and also the results first obtained 48 X-RAY DOSAGE by Dr. Kennon Dunham, of Cincinnati, in thetreatment of carbuncle. Recently Dr. Hickey,of Detroit, has carried out this treatment ina series of diphtheria carriers in which he wasable to rid the throat of diphtheria baccilli in fromtwo to four days and this occurred in eighty percent of the cases treated. This method, as compared with surgical removalof tonsils and adenoid

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