Article ID: CBB000933281

Le surprenant traitement de la teigne dans un hôpital nantais au début du XXème siècle (2009)

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In 1900, in Nantes, the ringworm was a real plague. Despite the very painful cares recovery could not be hoped before two years while the poor boys were roaming around far from school. At the Home St Jacques, a district for children suffering from ringworm and a department of electro-radiology were open where Doctor Gustave Bureau began to use X Rays to cure the ill hair and create a long lasting alopecia. The result was spectacular and patches disappeared in a few days. Besides three cases of radio dermatitis, there was no noticeable incident in spite of irradiation for twenty to twenty five minutes. The treatment has been used for about fifty years as it changed the life of the children till an effective drug. Then some studies showed the harmful long-term effects of such expositions to X rays.

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Authors & Contributors
Womack, Jeffrey
Wilkinson, Lise
Weisz, George M.
Rose, Anna Christina
Petroianu, Georg A.
Petitdant, Bernard
Concepts
Medicine
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
X-rays
Radiology
Parasitic diseases
Public health
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
Early modern
18th century
Places
France
United States
Germany
England
West Indies
Italy
Institutions
Rockefeller Foundation
Royal Army Medical Corps
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Institut Pasteur, Paris
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