Notes on a few cases of lupus treated in the electrical department of the Western Infirmary / by Donald J. Mackintosh.
- Mackintosh, Donald James, 1862-
- Date:
- [1902]
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Notes on a few cases of lupus treated in the electrical department of the Western Infirmary / by Donald J. Mackintosh. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Reprinted from the Glasgow Medical Joioriial for December, 1002.'] NOTES ON A FEW CASES OF LUPUS TREATED IN THE ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT OF THli WESTERN INFIRMARY.' By DONALD J. MACKINTOSH, M.B., Medical Superintendent. The treatment of lupus by light, as instituted by Dr. Finsen, of Copenhagen, was begun in the Western Infirmarj^ early in December, 1901, on the presentation to the liospital of an installation by the Exhibitors' Club of the Glasgow Inter- national Exhibition. The installation consisted of lamps of the London Hospital pattern, and additions have since been made of a Bartholomew lamp, a Tesla's high-frequency apparatus, &c. At the commencement of the light treatment, a test exposure of ten minutes to a current of 10 amperes is given, and if the reaction be not too violent, the sitting is increased to fifteen or twenty minutes, and the current to 12 amperes, care being ' At the March meeting of the Glasgow Medico-Cliirurgical Society, held in the Western Infirmaiy, I showed a numbes of cases of hi])iis which were at that time imder treatment in the Electrical Dei)artinent. Tt wa.s at first intended that .short clinical histories of a few of tlie ca.ses should be incorporateil in the report of the meeting, bnt, in resj)on.se to a request by the Editor, I have extended the notes and addcil a few ])hotogra])hs. A](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21455557_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
