| Popis: |
The author in a five-year period (February 16, 1938 to February 16, 1943) has treated over 400 patients suffering from a variety of conditions, infections of various kinds, systemic and regional, including the eye. He has used the method in about thirty cases of asthma and in about sixty cases of arthritis, rheumatoid, infectious and osteoarthritis. In all about thirty-five different conditions have been treated. Long before the Knott technic of hemoirradiation was introduced, ultraviolet spectral energy had proved to be a therapeutic agent of preeminence in a variety of conditions: rickets, infantile tetany, extrapulmonary tuberculosis, erysipelas, lupus vulgaris, various skin conditions, certain diseases of the eye (Duke-Elder8), et cetera. By the Knott technic the scope of therapeutic usefulness of ultraviolet radiation has been considerably increased so as now to include bacteremias, toxemias, peritonitis, thrombophlebitis and other serious infective conditions in which the operator can now anticipate prompt and effective action even when sulfa drug therapy and ordinary transfusions fail. It is a method which raises the general resistance of the individual, diminishes toxemia rapidly and stimulates the healing forces of the body. It is a safe method with no untoward reactions. It can be used to supplement other recognized measures, operative and medical, but in its own right it is a measure which will often effect a cure when all other therapy has failed. Nine illustrative cases are offered as evidence of the unusual therapeutic properties of this new method of employing ultraviolet radiant energy with precision apparatus which overcomes most of the uncontrollable factors which have hitherto made the administration of this energy uncertain even in the hands of skilled operators; and it makes possible the treatment of serious infections heretofore not amenable to conventional ultraviolet radiation therapy. |
