THE DESICCATION TREATMENT OF CONGENITAL AND NEW GROWTHS OF THE SKIN AND MUCOUS MEMBRANES

Abstract

I have undertaken during the past six years some experimental and clinical studies with high-tension electric currents, for the purpose of determining their value relative to the reduction of accessible adventitious growths. The practicability of utilizing such currents for producing a thermic action of just sufficient intensity to devitalize tissue by dehydration was described by me before another section¹of this association in 1912. This method has been developed to a higher degree of efficiency since that time, and additional facts concerning it realized. It has proved so satisfactory in my hands that I take the liberty of again calling attention to it and of presenting a series of pictures to show some of the results obtained. The field of application is limited to accessible neoplasms, as of cutaneous surfaces and such mucous membranes as the mouth, throat, larynx, conjunctiva, bladder, urethra, vagina, uterine cervix and rectum. The advantages