X-ray Therapy Not a Treatment
More and more x-rays are being used in the treatment of various diseases, but in conjunction with and as a complement to other physical therapies, perhaps especially actinotherapy. In many diseased states for which they are commonly sup¬posed to be useful, however, they have no value, and actino¬therapy tends to supplant, in many minds, any idea of roentgenotherapy. The latter nevertheless has a field which, although somewhat restricted, is not likely to be usurped by any other therapy. The dangers associated with its improper use are such that the public needs to be cautioned never to submit to x-ray therapy upon the advice of a singlephysician, nor unless administered by a skilled roentgenologist.
It is evident, therefore, that x-ray therapy hardly can be¬come a home therapy, unless in the home of a physician; and, that being the case, there is no need to dwell upon the subject at great length in these pages. It seems advisable to present it, however, along with other therapeutic specialties of which the same may be said, in order that the reader who desires to familiarize himself with drugless measures may not be ignorant of an agent of great value when properly employed.