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Title: The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Radium Society American Roentgen Ray Society
Subjects: Radiotherapy X-rays
Publisher: Springfield, Ill. C.C. Thomas
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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e conditions an enor-mous amount of radium, mounted on numerousapplicators, would be necessary to irradiatethe whole arfea, while it can be easily done witha roentgen-ray tube. On the other hand, to givean intense dose over a small area, as in rodentulcer, small superficial epitheliomas or recur-rent nodules after excision of the breast forcarcinoma, radium should be used, as by meansof emanation applicators a powerful dose maybe given to a very small area. In certain situa-tions, such as the cavity of the uterus, bladder,larynx, esophagus, stomach and rectum, it isalmost impossible to give an adequate dose ofroentgen rays, but radium can be effectivelyused. Though physicists consider the gammarays of radium analogous to the hardestcathodal rays of a roentgen-ray tube, clinicalexperience tends to show that there must besome difference, as frequently cases ot Iicheni-fication, rodent ulcer and lupus vulgaris do notrespond to roentgen rays but yield promptlyto radium. James T. Case. 526
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PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN ROENTGEN RAY SOCIETY1922-192J THE AMERICAN JOURNALOF ROENTGENOLOGY VOL. IX (new series) SEPTEMBER, 1922 No. 9 THE ROENTGENOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF ACHYLIA GASTRICA* BY A. W. CRANE, M.D. KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN TpVERY form of alimentary tract path- originally introduced by Einhorn to meanJ-^ ology must ultimately be considered in a total absence of the gastric juice, is nowits relations to roentgenological signs. Gastric and duodenal ulcers which areusually associated with an increased secre-tion of hydrochloric acid are the moststudied and the best understood roent commonly used in medical literature tomean a total absence of free hydrochloricacid. Barker (Monographic Medicine,iii, 516) states that in the early stages ofachylia the gastric ferments are still genologically of all gastrointestinal dis- present. He also says that the use of the eases. We have now to consider the term achylia to mean the absence of free roentgen-ray interpretation of an opposite acid is g

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