Radiotherapy And Phototherapy Including Radium And High Frequency Currents Their Medical And Surgical Applications

Author : Charles Warrenne Allen
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ISBN 13 : 9781331145998
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (459 download)

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Download or read book Radiotherapy and Phototherapy written by Charles Warrenne Allen and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Radiotherapy and Phototherapy: Including Radium and High-Frequency Currents, Their Medical and Surgical Applications in Diagnosis and Treatment; For Students and Practitioners The new therapy, based upon recent discoveries in the domain of radiant energy, has already achieved such positive results in some hitherto intractable maladies as to warrant us in considering it a powerful addition to our armamentarium. Naturally this has stimulated an immense amount of investigation and experiment, so that the reduction of this mass of knowledge to a usable form and the elimination of faulty observation have required the review of a vast quantity of Literature coming from all quarters of the civilized globe. Much that is incorrect has gained publicity and even credence. In order to secure adequate data on which to base a judgment of the actual merits and relative values of the various methods of treatment by light and rays, the author and those aiding him have endeavored to ascertain the truth, so far as possible, by actual work before committing any statement to print. As several excellent books are already available upon the practical and technical side of radiography, this subject has been briefly treated in the present volume, and the space thus gained has been devoted to the newer, larger, and more important field of therapy. For similar reasons shadow pictures and elementary electrophysics have been excluded as foreign to the purpose of the work. High-frequency currents have been considered at length because of the newness of the subject, its comparative absence from American medical literature, and its close relations to other new methods here discussed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.