Physicotherapy of tuberculosis.

  • Rivière, Joseph.
Date:
1913
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    diseases; the soie condition being that we should possess an equipment com- plete and perfect enough to obtain all the gradations of the therapeutic scale. (4) I was the first to show (1900) the heroic power of effluvations and sparks of high frequency in osseous tubercu- losis. Our observations have been con- firmed on all sides for the last twelve years. Other electric methods should not be neglected, but they have not, by any means, the specific curative value of high frequency. (5) Actinotherapy is excellent in tor- pid forms. Ozonised balsamo-antiseptic inhalations triumph over catarrhal and purulent complications. Mechanother- apy is an excellent method of respiratory re-education. (6) The high frequency efiluvation' and sparks, moreover, give the best re- sults in the treatment of local tubercu- loses (adenopathise, osteo-arthrites, tu- berculous orchitis, lupus, etc.). The ciirative penetrating power and el^tive action of detersion on morbid tissues are, in this case, superior to the Rbntgen rays themselves, as we have shown in our works on the effect of high frequency scintillation in cancer.