Identifier: radiographyradio002knox (find matches)
Title: Radiography and radio-therapeutics
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Knox, Robert, 1868-1928
Subjects: Radiography Radiography Radiotherapy
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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Fig. 404.—High-frequency treatment. to collaborate with the director of the institute in the treatment. Emana-tion applicators could then be quickly provided of the required strength,and need not involve the authorities in great expense. It would be a veryeconomical means to the end. The provision (in whatever form it is available) of a large quantity ofradium placed in suitable apj)licators would be a most valuable adjunctto the radio-therapeutic department of a military hospital. The cases inwhich radium will be found suitable will be dealt with later.
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556 RADIO-THERAPEUTICS Description of Types of Cases met with in MilitaryPractice, with Special Points in Technique During an experience of radiographic and therapeutic work at a basemilitary hospital, extending over three years, a great deal of work hasbeen carried out. In the early days of the war these cases were notnumerous, consisting as they did of conditions met with in patients whohad been called up for military service. They necessarily approximatedto the run of case met with in civil practice, and consequently called for nospecial attention. As the war progressed and the men were submitted toperiods of great strain and anxiety, types began to alter somewhat, thoughthey could still be recognised as belonging to well-known groups of disease.Thus, hyperthyroidism began to receive recognition. Soldiers heart, inso far as it was associated with hyperthyroidism and enlargement of thethyroid gland, began to attract notice and to receive radiation treatment.Lymphadenomatous enlargem

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