X-ray and radium beams in the therapy of nervous diseases

Abstract

It's no secret that the therapeutic effect of X-rays and radium rays was, one might say, an accidental empirical finding. This, however, did not mark the first radiotherapists (who were dermatologists) without data on the biological action of X-rays and radium rays, without an exact dosage, intuitively, in the very first year after the significant discoveries of Rontgen and Kunie, these radiant factors were initially applied in the field of dermatology (before 1902 they did not know anything about the deep action of the rays).