Use of Chlorpromazine in Radiation Sickness and Nausea from Other Causes

Abstract

RADIATION sickness has been one of the problems of the radiologist since the advent of x-ray and radium therapy more than fifty years ago. This effect is common, and occasionally is so distressing that it prohibits further treatment in spite of a desirable therapeutic response. Reducing the daily dose of radiation does not solve the problem, for, although nausea is less likely to occur with small doses, the series of treatments is thereby prolonged unduly, and may thus be of little or no benefit. Consequently, many preparations of widely varying character have been employed over the years in an attempt . . .