Items related to The surgery of childhood; including orthopaedic surgery
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...electric light of high candlepower has been employed but its value has not been determined. T h e direct rays of the sun concentrated through a lens, are certainly advantageous, as the tubercle bacilli are most powerfully inhibited by sunlight and by the hyperemia thus induced. Radium with its marvellous and still unknown qualities, although principally employed in cancerous diseases, has also been used in tuberculosis. "Radio-thor" or "Thorad-x" is a recent candidate for favor. It is claimed that it can be made very cheaply from pitchblende. Active Congestion.--Active congestion may be accomplished by heat, wet or dry. Many appliances for baking different parts of the body have been devised (Fig. 320), but the results of air superheated to 250 to 400 degrees are more dangerous in tuberculosis than in other diseases of the joints, since infected cells may be distributed by the increased circulation if vigorous massage follows. Simple appliances to cover limbs may be made from wooden boxes lined with asbestos; an alcohol lamp beneath an angulated pipe leading to the box will furnish the heat. For 1 Pancoast, Nat. Assoc. Prevention Tuber., Wash., D. C, 1907, p. 353. 2 Light Therapy, Deutsch Aerzte, Berlin, 1902, ii, 361. New York Med. Times, Feb., 1908. indurations and adhesions following fractures, dislocations, inflammatory conditions and effusions, stiffened joints from fibrous ankylosis, rheumatic and septic adhesions and a great variety of other conditions, however, the superheated air is of the greatest service by increasing absorption of effused materials, particularly when combined with massage, active or passive movements, gymnastic exercises, etc. (c) Passive Congestion; Elastic Constriction Hyperemia; StauUngs-hyperemia; Dry Cup...
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