Radiotherapy in skin disease / by J. Belot ; translated by W. Deane Butcher.

  • Belot, Joseph, 1876-
Date:
1905
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Credit: Radiotherapy in skin disease / by J. Belot ; translated by W. Deane Butcher. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE Radiology was born but yesterday ; it bas already made enormous strides. To-day it may be said to dominate the therapeutics of dermatology. I bave long been desirous of testing practically what electro- therapy is able to accomplish in the treatment of skin diseases, and foi’ nearly eight years I bave occupied inyself at my polyclinic in verifying the results published by electrical specialists. When, in the years 1901 and 1902, radiotherapy began to make such marvellous advances in Germany, in England, and in America, I asked my colleague Dr. Bisserié, who was then in charge of the electrical department of the Hôpital Broca, to turn his attention to the subject. He was, however, only able to carry out some preliminary experiments. Later on we found in Dr. Belot at once an electrician, a mechanician, and a physician, a most enthusiastic investigator of the new science, and one who had the necessary leisure to be able to devote himself exclusively to the work. To-day Dr. Belot gives us the results of his researchea* and therapeutic experiments, a work which was commenced as a modest essay on épilation by the X-rays, and has developed into a complété treatise on the practice of radiology in France. I am proud and happy that this book took its origin in the work of my modest electrotherapeutic clinique on the left bank of the Seine, and that its production has been aided by the kind and disinterested assistance of my friend Dr. Béclcre, an acknow- ledged master of the subject. This woi’k of Dr. Belofs is no mex’e compilation. Not only has he consulted the many works which hâve appeared on the subject, and collected with assiduous care the facts and théories which hâve inundated the press : he has added to