Re: Wart Removal

["Hank" <bicehous@gso.uri.edu>]

Dermatologists commonly used superficial x-ray therapy machines to "burn"
off warts thirty to forty years ago. The machines were sometimes called
Grenz Ray machines.
----- Original Message -----
From: Franz Schoenhofer <schoenho@via.at>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 4:18 PM
Subject: Re: Wart Removal


> At 11:09 08.02.2000 -0600, you wrote:
> >A co-worker told us of a childhood story in which he had a wart removed
> from his hand via some type of radiation process.  This would have been
> approximately 30 to 40 years ago.  Is anyone familiar with this type of
> process, and what type of source, techniques were used?  He now has skin
> cancer on that arm and hand.  I would expect that this type process is not
> used anymore?
> >
> >Scott Nelson
> >Radiological Engineering
> >scottnelson@alliant-energy.com
>
> Scott,
>
> Your message puts up some remembrance from my childhood, which was about
40
> years ago. I remember talks about wart removal by using "radium
> irradiation". I suppose that everything concerning radiation was then
> attributed to "radium", but it might have been exact, because hardly any
> other radiation sources might have been available at this time in my
country.
>
> Curiously enough I remember from my early childhood that being at
"Prater",
> an amusement park in Vienna, my parents met a friend who spoke about
having
> been "irradiated" too much in the hospital and that this was related to
> something which might have been a wart. I remember that he had a bandage
> somewhere (I really do not recall where) and that this was the reason of
my
> parents asking him what had happened. At this time I surely was not
> expecting that I would  write decades later about it to RADSAFE!
>
> This is a personal view, scientific evidence might be presented by several
> other competent persons!
>
> Regards,
>
> Franz
>
>
> Franz Schoenhofer
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