Part I
I. PHYSICAL
DATA
II. PHYSIOLOGICAL
EFFECTS
III.
DOSAGE
IV. DOSAGE:
LOCAL IRRADIATION
V. LUMINOUS
HEAT AND INFRA-RED RAYS
Part II
ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF INDICATIONS AND DETAILS OF
TECHNIQUE
Part III
SUPPLEMENTARY LIST OF BOOKS AND PAPERS
Illustrations
Figure 1: ENERGY
DISTRIBUTION OF STANDARD SOURCES
Figure 2: SKIN
AND TISSUE REACTIONS
Figure 3: APPLICATORS
FOR THE KROMAYER LAMPS
To the increasing number of practitioners, using
ultra violet and allied therapeutic radiations, a handbook on Actinotherapeutic
Technique which is informative but not diffuse, is an essential requisite.
Many admirable text books have appeared and, in
addition, a mass of literature, in the form of original papers, so extensive
and so scattered that it is beyond the powers of the majority of us to
collect and assimilate. This handbook endeavours, and I believe very
successfully, to supply a real need.
With the aid of this book the practitioner, with
the requisite apparatus, has at hand, in convenient form, an aid to special
technique in treatment which is practical, illuminating and helpful.
How many of us in practising light treatment have
been presented with unusual or unfamiliar conditions for which we would
have been grateful for the experience of others in their management?
If such help is, at times, desired by specialists
in this branch of therapy, it will be even more appreciated by those whose
acquaintance with these aids to cure are more limited. The numerous
references given to authoritative literature should prove of immense assistance.
I congratulate the compilers of this handbook on
their diligence and on the care they have taken in its compilation.
They have done their work with commendable thoroughness. I feel honoured
in having been invited by the publishers to write this Foreword, and on
behalf of my medical colleagues, I thank them for having placed this valuable
volume at our service. I belive that it will be regarded as indispensable
to all engaged in the practice of actinotherapy.
Morland Clinics, H. J. GAUVAIN
Alton, Hants.
(a) Books and papers which deal
specifically with that condition, quoted in full bibliographical form.
(b) Works of wider scope which yet furnish
specific information on that condition, quoted by numerical references
only, and easily traced by the running reference entries which head each
page.
So far as possible, the references include reproductions
or abstracts in “The Quartz Lamp” (Newark or Slough editions) and other
physiotherapeutic journals.
In a work planned for compact format and easy reference,
it is obviously impossible to give more than guiding outlines of technique.
These will need adaptation to the requirements of each case individually:
the physician is treating patients and not diseases. For clearness
and simplicity, the technique data are stated for certain standard types
of actinic sources. It is emphasized that they should not be applied
unchanged to other types of apparatus.
In a work intended for use by qualified practitioners
of medicine, it should be superfluous to point out that most ailments call
for due use of the triad which includes physical therapy (of which actinotherapy
is one branch) with medicine and surgery. The scope of this book
precludes detailed notes on concomitant therapeutic measures; reference
is made to these only when they present some special phase of interaction
with actinotherapy. At the same time, the use of actinic radiation
does not in any sense restrict the practitioner’s therapeutic resources;
rather does it enlarge them by supplementing and assisting the action of
other measures.
The compilers or publishers will welcome any suggestions
or corrections from the medical profession which may help to make the book
more fit for its purpose, and so to assist, however humbly, in the advancement
of medical science towards its ultimate goal of mastering disease.
1933
HANOVIA.