This Article  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

By A. Monbrun and M. Casteran. Price, 16 francs. Pp. 127. Paris: Masson & Cie, 1929.

S. R. G., Reviewer

Arch Ophthal. 1930;3(4):498-499.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

This book is one of a recent French series of practical handbooks. The authors, after discussing the theory and technic of medical and surgical diathermy, fulguration and the medical use of high tension currents, consider the various ocular diseases in which these methods are of service, with the indications for the particular kinds of treatment which they recommend. Their judgment is based on a large experience in the Paris hospitals, especially the Hotel Dieu under Professor Terrien. The relatively simple apparatus required, including the few special instruments necessary for ophthalmologic practice, is described. The current must be much weaker than that used in ordinary diathermy, usually below 500 milliamperes ; hence a special milliamperometer is required.

The authors believe that an attempt to use diathermy for intra-ocular conditions is dangerous, and have confined their work to conditions of the lids, conjunctiva and cornea. In medical diathermy, the small active electrode is . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?