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Title: A system of instruction in X-ray methods and medical uses of light, hot-air, vibration and high-frequency currents : a pictorial system of teaching by clinical instruction plates with explanatory text : a series of photographic clinics in standard uses of scientific therapeutic apparatus for surgical and medical practitioners : prepared especially for the post-graduate home study of surgeons, general physicians, dentists, dermatologists and specialists in the treatment of chronic diseases, and sanitarium practice
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Monell, S. H. (Samuel Howard), d. 1918
Subjects: Vibration X-rays Diagnosis, Radioscopic Thermotherapy Electrotherapeutics X-Ray Therapy Vibration Diagnosis
Publisher: New York : E.R. Pelton
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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THE X-RAY TREATMENT OF LUPUS 417 * 3.—Lupus of eight years standing, whicli had resisted varioustreatments. Diagnosis of lupus vulgaris was substantiated by path-ological examination of a specimen taken from the left cheek.Treatment same as before up to tenth seance. A severe dermatitisthen developed on the back of the patients right hand, which hehad been in the habit of resting upon the table directly under thetube. The dorsum of the hand was swollen and intensely red, withsevere burning pain. In a few days blebs formed very much afterthe manner of an ordinary burn. The hand was dressed with zincstearate dry, and kept so with ordinary bandages. Immediate im-provement resulted. The pain lessened, swelling disappeared, theskin peeled in large patches, and was at once replaced with soundskin. Four weeks later ridges appeared across all the nails of theaffected hand, showing the effect of the trophic disturbance at thematrix. The index finger on the affected hand had previously beensw

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