Radium, its physics and therapeutics / [Dawson Turner].

  • Turner, Dawson (Dawson Fyers Duckworth)
Date:
1911
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    ment by treating in the same way the extensive lesions on the hands of an X-ray operator. Dr. Deane Butcher has found that the application of radium has a soothing effect upon X-ray burns, something like that of cocaine. We know also, on his excellent authority, that radium is unapproachable in the treatment of pruritus. Diseases of the Eye.—The advances that have been made in the treatment of diseases of the eye by radium we owe to Dr. Mackenzie Davidson, who in his introductory address, as President of the section of Radiology, at the meeting of the British Medical Association in July, 1910, made the follow- ing remarks: ‘‘ But if radium has not so far fulfilled all the hopes that were entertained of it, it has, at any rate, accomplished something, and it is en- couraging to turn for a moment to a new field of experiment in which it has yielded good and definite results—namely, certain diseases of the eye. Here, again, the diseases in which it is potent are ‘ super- ficial.” So far as we have tried it in deep-seated diseases, the results are negative. On the other hand, in some external diseases of the eyes and eyelids, its action is very remarkable, and I feel sure that radium will take a high place in ophthalmic therapeutics. By way of example, I may instance five cases of spring catarrh which I have cured by radium. The first of these was cured four years ago, and there has been no recurrence. Some of these cases were extremely