Discoveries of the highest importance concerning the curative use of X-rays were revealed at a lecture on Dec. 9, by Dr. S. Gilbert Scott, the radiologist, states the "Daily Telegraph and Morning Post."
He described a system of "wide-feld" X-ray therapy, by means of which "remarkable clinical results" have been obtained in many diseases hitherto considered outside the scope of X-ray, treatment.
Certain types of chronic rheumatism, blood and glandular diseases are among those successfully treated.
The treatment consists of giving the patient an "X-ray bath."
Its underlying principle differs from that upon "which existing methods are based.
Dr. Scott explained that X-rays have been used mainly for their effect on a localised part of the body. Very penetrating X-rays, for example, were directed in large and destructive doses on to rumours or cancerous growths.
This method, which, unfortunately said Dr. Scott, is associated with severe upset of the patient, could be described' as surgical X-ray therapy.
The new method might be called "medical, X-ray therapy." Instead of large destructive doses,"small applications of X-rays of medium penetra tion are passed through a thin metal filter on to the whole of the patient's Investigations have been carried out
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