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

  • Turner, Dawson (Dawson Fyers Duckworth)
Date:
1911
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Credit: Radium, its physics and therapeutics / [Dawson Turner]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This mud exercises a sedative effect, and is believed to promote the absorption of exudations. It does not irritate the skin, its radio-activity is permanent; but when it has been used, it must be allowed to dry fora fortnight before it is used again. Another method of employing the earth is to make use of baths. Two hundred and fifty grammes of the earth are mixed with the warm water of the bath; more may be used if desired, but this is the usual strength. The patient can remain in the bath for half an hour, and have a series of a dozen in a fortnight or longer. Good results are claimed to have been obtained by Claude and Teuliere (Brit. Med. Journ., March 12, 1910) in arthralgia and subacute forms of arthritis. The pain, redness, and swelling, usually disappear with great rapidity, but affections of the lower limb appear to be more rebellious than those of the upper limb. The best results appear to have been obtained in subacute gonorrhceal rheumatism. Mud baths have been for a long time in vogue at certain health resorts; itis possible that the beneficial results may have depended upon the presence of traces of radio-active substances. The same may be said of certain mineral waters. General Comparison between X-Ray and Radium Treatment.—Whether there is any specific thera- peutic difference between X-ray and radium radia- tions is a question not yet settled. I have observed that certain rodent ulcers which were refractory to
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