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) (14570682197)

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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

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estionably a great mistake,and often defeats the very purpose for which the skiagraph is made.If the x-ray is to be made a means of accurate diagnosis, the workmust be done throughout by a thoroughly experienced physician. Dark-Room.—Dark-room methods of the photographer are, tothe average physician, more or less a mystery. He imagines that 220 PRACTICAL ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS AND X-RAY THERAPY the work is complicated, and requires an endless amount of study,for which he has neither time nor inclination. As a matter of fact,if the dark-room is properly built and arranged, the extra amountof work required to develop and finish a skiagraph is a pleasurerather than a task. The dark-room need not be large, 6x7 feet being sufficient whereonly a small amount of work is to be done. The room should beabsolutely free from white light, and so constructed that it maybe perfectly ventilated. A room of this size, built of tongue-and-groove flooring, may be placed in a corner of the x-ray room, or,

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Fig. 104.—Developing and printing cabinet. if space is at a premium, as it often is in doctors offices, it mightbe placed in a near-by room or in the basement. Where there isa sewer system, a sink, with running water, should be placed on oneside, and a wide base shelf run from the sink along the wall to theend of the room. This shelf is used for the support of trays whiledeveloping. A number of shelves should be arranged above andbelow the sink for trays, printing frames, stock, etc. Fig. 104 is a fairly good representation of the authors devel-oping and printing cabinet. This cabinet is 7% feet l°n§> accom- PHOTOTHERAPY 221 modates a 3-foot sink, and has a broad base shelf, with a number ofshelves below and above. The base shelf is covered with roofingglass 1/2 incn thick. The portion above the base has double glassdoors. It is fitted with two rnby lights, one orange, and one groundglass. This cabinet furnishes ample room for a complete developingand finishing equipment, toget

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