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By Patrice Pinell
Among the 2 international Wars an disease that usually impacts adults over fifty years outdated turned so fashionable that it outdated either tuberculosis and syphilis in importance.As Patrice Pinell indicates, the impression of melanoma in France earlier than international battle reached a ways past the query of its mortality charges. Pinell's socio-historical method of the early advancements within the struggle opposed to melanoma describes how medical, healing, philanthropic, moral, social, economics and political curiosity mixed to rework drugs.
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36 Other cases of dermatitis on the hands of scientists working with radium were soon noticed. There were enough facts now to eliminate the hypothesis of an effect of electricity, since a radioactive body which spontaneously emitted particular radiations and which was very analogous (in its physical properties) to X-rays managed to produce on the skin trophic problems similar to those caused by exposure to a Crookes tube. At the same time as the object of the research became clear, a new field of treatment appeared with radium therapy.
39 A sort of unveiling ritual then began in which each lady undid the previous day’s bandages and uncovered the wounds before cleaning them and starting to re-bandage them. The ‘Oeuvre du Calvaire’, a charity which Félix Rocquain called ‘heroic’,40 operated on the basis of the daily performance of these extreme forms of behaviour. The relationship which these widows had with the sufferers appeared much closer to J. Le Brun’s descriptions of the exempla which cancer produced in convents in the seventeenth century than that which existed between carers and patients in the Rheims cancer hospital.
If, here too, we find an association – between the woman suffering from cancer and Christ – which J. Le Brun tells us is at the heart of the representations of cancer in the convents of the classical period,46 the difference because of the institutional atmosphere and the fact that the widow kept her rank lent a new character to this representation: that of raising the poor sufferer above the society woman. It is also appropriate to note that by defining the limits where, very temporarily, social positions were reversed, the houses of the Calvaire assured the ‘elite’ of its ‘clear conscience’ and served as an excuse for an edifying story, such as that which should charm the audience at the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences.