THE ROENTGEN RAYS AND RADIUM IN TOXIC GOITER AND HYPERTHYROIDISM

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The published reports of many authorities have served to remove irradiation therapy from the field of experimentation in the management of certain diseases that are prone to occur in the thyroid gland. Furthermore, these reports have placed on a firm basis the methods of treatment about to be described. In fact, I feel it will be agreed that today for the symptomcomplex known as toxic goiter, hyperthyroidism, exophthalmic goiter, Graves's disease, Basedow's disease and so on there is probably no treatment followed by better results than that of correctly applied roentgen or radium rays. Holmes and Means1state that about two thirds of patients with exophthalmic goiter so treated show either recovery or improvement with the treatment. The remaining third neither improve nor grow worse. Barclay,2in a series of 300 treated cases, reports as cured 63.3 per cent and as improved 24.6 per cent, giving a total

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