Identifier: americanxrayjour1415unse (find matches)
Title: American X-ray journal
Year: 1904 (1900s)
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Subjects: X-Rays Radiography
Publisher: St. Louis : American X-Ray Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
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their articles at cost of publication. Entered as Second-Class Matter, March 4, 1903, at the Postoffice at Chicago, 111., under the Art of Congress of March 3,1879. Vol. XIV. CHICAGO, JUNE, 1904. No. 6 CONTENTS. PAGE PACE Frontispiece. Dr. Gilman 162 psych0 Therapy. By Henry W. Roby ... 181 The Rat ional Treatment of Malignancy. Editorial 183 By H. Preston Pratt 163 Correspondence 185 atuses and Forms of Treatment in Medico Legal Aspect of X-Rays 186 Chronic Prostatitis. By F. A. Lens-Electro Culture 188 man 166 International Electrical Congress of St. General Items— Louis 172 Warts and Moles 182 American Electro-Therapeutic Association 174 Government and Wireless Telegraphy 184International Congress of Medicine at New Form of X-Light Tube 185 Lisbon 176 New Theory of Polar Currents 191 Electrical Action in Plants and Animals. 177 Experts on Cancer 191 Effects of Different Lights Upon the More Surprising Properties of N-Rays 192 Eye. By D. W. Weaver 179 Cancer Research Abandoned 192
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DR. JOHN E. GILMAN. THE AMERICAN X-RAY JOURNAL Devoted to Practical X-Ray Work and Allied Arts and Sciences. Vol. XIV. CHICAGO, JUNE, 1904. No. 6 The Rational Treatment of Malignancy. BY H. PRESTON PRATT, M. D., CHICAGO. Dr. Roswoll Park, in an address beforethe surgical society in Germany, is cred-ited in the newspapers with saying thatin America cancer is making such rapidheadway that there are more deaths fromthis disease than from tuberculosis. If this statement is true, and we haveno reason to doubt it, as it comes from asurgeon of such excellent standing, whois certainly familiar with the statisticson the subject, it behooves the medicalprofession to awaken, broaden out, andfollow up every new channel of scientificinvestigation until it has discovered amethod which will decrease this mortality. Surgery pure and simple has had itssway sufficiently long for us to realize thatwe can no longer expect much from t hatsource, and we are all bound to admit thatit has not materially decr

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