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fact that all the children, while having treatment, are made to do
breathing and physical exercises.
Surgical Tuberculosis. There have been 24 of. these cases
under treatment, all of whom have been treated in institutions or
otherwise. The object of arc-light treatment in these cases has
been to prevent relapse, or to try and effect an improvement
where other remedies have failed.
In all of these there has been a considerable improvement.
In one old-standing case of tuberculosis of the hip, with four
discharging sinuses, a sequestrum separated, and was discharged
after six months' treatment. This patient had been bedridden for
four years, and is now able to get about with the aid of sticks.
In another case a rectal sinus, which had been discharging
at intervals for 10 years, closed after one month's treatment,
and remains healed up-to-date, i.e., twelve months. In one case
where the patient suffered from acne, as well as from Tuberculosis, the acne rash rapidly disappeared under the treatment.
Lupus. Two cases are under treatment. One case has
shown extraordinary improvement, and the lesions, formerly very
extensive, have now almost completely disappeared, to the great
satisfaction of the patient. The second patient has only been
under treatment for a short time.
Rickets. We have six cases of rickets under treatment, but
in each case there was no active rickets when the patient was
first seen, and the treatment has been given, with the object of
preventing relapse and improving the physique of the patients.
Exophthalmic Goitre. One case has been under treatment
for too short a time to allow any opinion as to the results of
radiation.
Varicose Ulcers. Five patients are being treated. Radiation
certainly helps these patients. The ulcers clean fairly rapidly,
and become shallower. Pain is very rapidly relieved, but the
ulcers are always liable to break down again when the patient
returns to work.
The remaining cases are still under treatment, and it
is too early at present to consider results. As -in the case of most
new treatments, artificial sunlight has been hailed as a universal
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