Excerpt from The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 184: June 16, 1921 Heat energy in its destruction possesses no' selective ability. It destroys everything in its path, up to a certain line, and here it stops. It has little or no penetrative power. In the radio-surgical treatment the cautery is used to destroy the gross mass of cancerous tissue down to its limits, if possible, for the reason that it gives less hemorrhage, less shock, and by its sealing action it is less liable to engraft or open up the lymphatics and blood vessels to cancer cell transplantation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.