Identifier: practicalpointsi00judd (find matches)
Title: Practical points in the use of X-ray and high-frequency currents
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Judd, Aspinwall
Subjects: X-rays Electrotherapeutics Radiography X-Rays Radiography
Publisher: New York : Rebman Company
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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authors, the effect of the first few applica-tions was to increase the temperature, dia-phoresis, loss of weight and number of bacilli.In a short time, however, these conditions werereversed, the disease was apparently arrested,and in many there was every clinical evidenceof permanent cure. The treatment was chieflyby auto-condensation, sometimes combined withthe Oudin current. Urticaria Guilleminot reports remarkable results in theabove condition by means of static or high-frequency currents, together with general treat-ment. As, however, this condition is so eva-nescent and liable to disappearance underalmost any form of treatment, the author issomewhat skeptical as to the efficiency of thetreatment. Treatment of Diseased Conditions 175 Chronic Urethritis Annealed glass, blown in the form of a smallsound, attached to one wire of the Tesla or otherhigh-frequency current, the other electrode heldin the patients hand, has been used for thispurpose. It is undoubtedly effectual in stop-
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Fig. 47.—Illustrates the Keating-Hart electrode which is used for ful-geration. As the disk C is turned one way or the other, it movesD through it so that the copper wire A approaches the openingB. In this way the length of spark is regulated. Keating-Hartsmethod of fulgeration consists simply in that after removal of a malig-nant growth by the knife, while the patient is under the general anaes-thetic, a high-frequency current is applied thoroughly to every part ofthe raw surface. This current is strong enough to turn all of the tis-sues white. He claims that if this method is followed after an opera-tion, that there is very much less danger of the return of a malignantgrowth. ping the discharge. As to whether it will pro-duce disagreeable by-effects or not, is a mootedpoint. 176 X-Ray and High-Frequency Currents Fulguration It has been discovered that the direct applica-tion of a naked, metallic point, derived from oneterminal of a high-frequency current, the Teslacurrent preferre

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