Various Effects of X-Ray Therapy
Different x-ray doses are used for different effects: stimu¬lative, inhibitive, destructive, and solvent. The last, which is sometimes called ionizing x-ray therapy, is safest and of serv- ice in the greatest variety of diseased states. In this therapy the dose is very small, the effects being more diffuse than local, yet very positive. It is often used in connection with ultra¬violet rays, infra-red rays and certain other physiotherapeutic agents. These other agents seem to intensify the effect of the x-rays; hence minute doses become very potent, yet safe— the effects being entirely different from those we usually asso¬ciate with x-rays.