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REMOVAL WITH THE MONOPOLAR DIATHERMY NEEDLE

MARTHE ERDOS-BROWN, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1942;46(4):496-501.

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Hypertrichosis is considered by the sensitive woman a most unsightly, humiliating, masculine blemish. It not only is a social and economic disadvantage but serves as a physical basis for a melancholic psychic disturbance, and it is a mistake merely to console the patient.

Dermatologists have accepted two energized needle methods as satisfactory for removing superfluous hair. Electrolysis utilizes a needle energized by galvanic current, and the diathermy method utilizes a needle carrying high frequency current.

Electrolysis presents many complicating features which make the operation much less certain than merely inserting a needle and adjusting a rheostat would indicate. If the electrodes are reversed (and two must be used), whether by accident or by ignorance, the result is the formation within every follicle entered by the needle of a black dot or tattoo mark. But if used on the negative terminal steel needles are satisfactory regardless of the glamour which lay . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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