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Title: Röntgen rays and electro-therapeutics : with chapters on radium and phototherapy
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Kassabian, Mihran Krikor, 1870-1910
Subjects: Electrotherapeutics X-rays Phototherapy Radiology Radiotherapy
Publisher: Philadelphia & London : J.B. Lippincott Company
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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pigmentation. The influence of the rays on psoriasisis in keeping with the fact demonstrated by one of us (Hyde) twelveyears ago, and frequently since, that some psoriatic patients can freetheir skin of all lesions by prolonged baths. F. S. Burns states that the treatment of this disease by means ofthe Eiontgen rays has been thoroughly tested, and no lesion has failed todisappear under this form of treatment, even though the cases haveresisted all other forms of treatment for a considerable period of time.He bases his conclusions on a series of 150 cases. Morris and Dore * state that they have seen good results in chronicpatches of psoriasis. From four to ten treatments were usually sufficient,in a given group of lesions, to cause them to disappear entirely. ^ Niederrheinische Gesellschaft fiir Natur- und Heilkunde in Bonn, 11, ii., 1901.^Journal of the American Medical Association, January 3, 1903, p. 4.3 Boston Medical Journal, October 23, 1903.* British Med. Journal, June 6, 1903.
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Fig. 222.—Profile and full view of a patient at the Philadelphia Hospital with acne rosacea.

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