Radiography, X-ray Therapeutics, and Radium Therapy

Radium Therapeutics

Treatment by X-Ray and Radium

The correct appreciation of the value of a remedial agent is always difficult. This is particularly the case in internal medication where the action of, for example, a drug is in question, and it is often only possible to arrive at the true value after numerous experiments and the lapse it may be of years. When an agent which appears to act upon all structures with which it comes into contact i...

The x-ray and radium phosphenes.

OPHTHALMOLOGISTS, as well as radiologists, are aware that radium radiations and x rays can produce a sensation of light on striking a person's eye. This phenomenon is being used clinically to locate foreign bodies within the eye and to test the retinae of cataractous eyes. It has recently been used to measure the diameters and refractive power of living human eyes. But the mechanism by which th...

X-Ray Therapeutics

man can hope to attain in this city. Once again your choice of President has fallen on one of the rank and file of the profession, for although it has been my pride and privilege to have been connected with the staff of the Infirmary in a subordinate position for the last few years, still all my medical career has been passed as a general practitioner. As such I should like to express my gratit...

A Practical Guide to X-Rays, Electro-Therapeutics, and Radium Therapy

X-rays and electro-therapeutics in its many branches has in a few years gathered to itself an extensive literature. The text-books are numerous, but this " practical guide " compiled by Major Walter must find for itself a place, as it deals with a very large subject in a concise and most efficient manner. Anyone wishing to study electro-medical science will find laid before him a thorough intro...