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]
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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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    10 amperes, and the time of exposure ten minutes. Six weeks later the current was increased to 12 amperes, and the time o£ exposure to fifteen minutes. The reaction to the light was always good, sometimes violent, and it was found necessary to discontinue the treatment for a few days from time to time. In one of these intervals treatment with a glass electi^ode, excited by the Tesla coil, was adopted, with marked benefit to the patient, and until four weeks of her dismissal the Finsen Cask IV.—F. S. light and Tesla coil were used alternately. The patient was dismissed healed on 20th June, 1902, the Tesla coil alone having been employed during the last four weeks of treatment. Case II.—B. S., set. 28, had been the subject of lupus for some twelve years. The disease fixst attacked the throat, and - two years later extended into the upper part of the nares. It