OSTEITIS DEFORMANS: ITS TREATMENT BY ULTRA-VIOLET RAYS

Treatment of Diseases of the Skin by Ultra-violet Rays.

ULTRA-VIOLET rays are stated to have a general tonic effect on the sympathetic, and it has been denlonstrated that a general irradiation produces an increase of the calcium and phosphorus ions in the blood. Growing rats subjected to daily irradiation by the mercury-vapour lamp increase in weight, and their total calcium content goes up considerably in excess of the controls. It would appear tha...

Additional Cases of Osteitis Deformans.

I SHOULD not have offered to the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society a mere collection of cases such as this paper contains, if it were not for the hope that they may help to clearly indicate the chief characters of the disease to which I venture to give the name of osteitis deformans, and which, so far as I know, was first described in the paper published in the 60th volume of the Society's ...

Heart Block in Osteitis Deformans.

The simian figure of the country gentleman from the north of England, who was Sir James Paget's first reported case (1877) of osteitis deformans, hobbles still through all accounts of this disease: he exemplifies most of the known complications. Paget himself learnt little more from the twenty-two other cases he saw (1882, 1889), and since then a forest of at least 700 articles, covering over 2...

Circulatory dynamics in osteitis deformans.

In Paget's disease the peripheral blood flow is increased in the bones affected by the disease. Nevertheless the circulatory dynamics of the patients studied at rest are usually not modified significantly. But during exercise, an abnormal augmentation of the cardiac output in regard to the metabolic needs is observed. These findings are similar to those the authors have observed in patients suf...

Studies of Paget's disease (osteitis deformans).