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Arch Dermatol. 2000;136:840.

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VOL. XVIII.

JULY, 1900.

No. 7.

Original Communications.

ROENTGEN-RAYS IN THE TREATMENT OF SKIN DISEASE AND FOR THE REMOVAL OF HAIR

WM. ALLEN PUSEY, A.M., M.D.,
Professor of Dermatology in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago;
the College of Medicine of the University of Illinois.

Perhaps no more unexpected accidents ever happened than those which were announced upon the very heels of the first use of x-rays. . . . The credit for first demonstrating the possibility of using x-rays for therapeutic purposes belongs, I believe, to Freund, who, after a consideration of the alopecias accidentally produced by x-rays, undertook in November, 1896, to remove the hair from a nævus by their use. . . .

The removal of hair by this method is attended by no disagreeable sensations and by no accompanying symptoms beyond at times a slight erythema or pigmentation, lasting a short time. The skin, . . . [Full Text of this Article]