Re: Whooping Cough treatment

["Ron L. Kathren" <rkathren@tricity.wsu.edu>]

Zella --

Did a little checking for you.  The book by Kelly and Dowell, "Roentgen
Treatment of Infection", published in 1942, is sort of a classic in this
area and does not mention treatment of whooping cough by x-rays.  However,
back in 1923, Charles Lester Leonard first proposed such treatment, and
there are a couple of pages devoted to the treatment of whooping cough by
x-rays in Pohle, Clinical Radiation Therapy, published in 1938 and also in
the second edition published in 1950.  I'm sure that I could find a lot more
references  without too much trouble.  If you wish more information, please
contact me privately.

Ron Kathren
rkathren@tricity.WSU.edu

----- Original Message -----
From: Sasnett, Zella L (Zella) <zsasnett@lucent.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 7:54 AM
Subject: Whooping Cough treatment


> Listers,
>
> Can anyone in Radsafe land point me to a resource that discusses the
> treating of Whooping Cough with xrays back in the 40/50's? I seem to
recall
> this has been discussed on the list before, so even a referral as to when
> this occured so I can better search the archives would be helpful.
>
> Thanks
> Zella
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