The Chicago Medical Recorder Volume 18 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...treatment of cosmetic defects. There is also a wide range of usefulness for an agent capable of influencing the nutrition of the connective tissue structures of the skin, particularly if it may be so managed as to exercise some selective action upon tissues of low degree of vitality, as it is found the X-rays do. The problem of utilizing these properties of X-rays for therapeutic purposes has involved not only the determination of the effects of X-rays upon tissues of various sorts, healthy and diseased, but the determination of the conditions under which the desired results might be attained within the limits of safety. A number of experimenters have engaged in clearing up these questions. The results which have been attained by various workers in establishing the conditions of safety of the use of X-rays for diagnostic purposes have furnished many of the data which have been utilized in working out the problems of the use of X-rays for therapeutic purposes. Among the workers who have especially devoted their attention to the problems of the therapeutic uses of the X-rays. Schiff and Freund of Vienna deserve first mention. Among others who have contributed to it are Albers-Schonberg, Jutassy, Kummell, Rieder, Musham and others in Germany and Austria. Outside of Germany and Austria, where most of the investigations have been made, there should be mentioned Holland of England, and P. M. Jones of San Francisco, who as far as I know is the first American to have done any work in this line. The credit for first demonstrating the possibility of using X-rays for therapeutic purposes belongs I believe, to Freund, who after a consideration of the alopecias accidentlv produced by X-rays undertook in November, 1896, to remove the. hair from a nevus by their use. Foll...