Abstract
The the Editor: —The treatment of polycythemia, or Vaquez's disease, is even today haphazard. Attempts are still made to reduce blood volume by dietary regimen and bloodletting, needless to say without much success. Recently Guido Milani (The Journal, Oct. 19, 1929, p. 1205) has described the roentgen treatment of the long bones of patients suffering from Vaquez's disease as a new and successful method of therapeusis. Milani states that, although attempts to irradiate the bones had been made previously, the authors had not given details or specified the bones to be irradiated. Milani's success corroborates the results I published in detail more than eleven years ago ( Munchen. med. Wchnschr . 66 :269, 1919) and which I believe represent the first successful effort to treat polycythemia by irradiation of the long bones. At that time, while interned in Germany, I had occasion to treat a woman with polycythemia and multiple fibromyomas of
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