Practical electro-therapeutics and X-ray therapy - with chapters on phototherapy, X-ray in eye surgery, X-ray in dentistry, and medico-legal aspect of the X-ray (1912) (14570730897)

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Title: Practical electro-therapeutics and X-ray therapy : with chapters on phototherapy, X-ray in eye surgery, X-ray in dentistry, and medico-legal aspect of the X-ray

Year: 1912 (1910s)

Authors: Martin, James Madison, 1866-1947

Subjects: Electrotherapeutics X-rays Diagnosis, Radioscopic Eye Electric Stimulation Therapy X-Ray Therapy Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures

Publisher: St. Louis : C.V. Mosby

Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine

Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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Fig. 178.—Photograph and skiagraph of a sore leg of three years standing. Low gradeof osteomyelitis of the tibia. authors observation during the past four years. The attendingphysician can not be blamed for overlooking these early cases, forhe has been taught to look for more violent symptoms. The low,grumbling, aching pains have been diagnosed and treated as rheu-matism until the bone has broken down and the pus found its wayto the surface. Fig. 178 is a case similar to Fig. 177. The shaft of the tibia isthickened and appears to be giving way. The medullary canal con- 356 PRACTICAL ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS AND X-RAY THERAPY tains pus. The patient refused operative interference, and hasnot been heard from since the examination was made. Fig. 179 was thought to be a case of periostitis, with beginningof osteomyelitis of the lower end of the femur. The author sus-pected osteosarcoma. The case was operated recently.

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Fig. 179.—Osteomyelitis of the lower end of the femur of several years standing. Fig. 180 beautifully illustrates a neglected case of osteomyelitisof the femur. The skiagraph was made four months after theannoying pains in the bone began. The case was diagnosed andtreated as rheumatism. When pus accumulated beneath the skin,the swelling was lanced and a large quantity evacuated. The dis-charge continued and tuberculosis was suspected. Much of thebone was destroyed. Before the skiagraph was made, bismuth paste X-RAY IN DISEASES OF THE BONES 357 was injected through the sinus, which is shown as dark depositsaround the bone. Caries.—Any destructive process or change in the contour ofthe bone will show in a well-made skiagraph. Fig. 181 is a skia-graph of an ankle. This was a troublesome case for diagnosis, and

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