Abstract
r I AHE application of high radio-frequency currents to curative medicine and surgery has received considerable attention from research workers for some years past. The development of the technique at very high frequencies above 30 million cycles per second (wave-lengths below 10 metres) has materially increased the scope of this application. At these frequencies, thermal treatment of disease can be carried out by means of capacity currents in the body, which is placed between the plates of a condenser in the oscillatory circuit. By a suitable choice of frequency, the currents can be made to have a varying heating effect in different kinds of tissue; in this way it may be possible to apply thermal treatment to a diseased portion of the body, while leaving the surrounding portions almost unaffected.
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(1) Short Wave Therapy: (2) Grundriss der Kurswellentherapie (3) Foundations of Short Wave Therapy. Nature 137, 514 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137514a0
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