The Roentgen rays in medicine and surgery as an aid in diagnosis and as a therapeutic agent; designed for the use of practitioners and students (1903) (14755079681)

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Title: The Roentgen rays in medicine and surgery as an aid in diagnosis and as a therapeutic agent; designed for the use of practitioners and students

Year: 1903 (1900s)

Authors: Williams, Francis H. (Francis Henry), 1852-1936

Subjects: Radiotherapy Radiography Radiography, Thoracic

Publisher: New York : The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan & Co., ltd.

Contributing Library: University of California Libraries

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its site and character, and whether or not the parts arein good position ; that the X-rays are useful in showing us cases offracture where there is much swelling and where palpation is difficult;that an old callus may be seen, but not a recent callus, or that thelatter can be seen only indistinctly ; that it is an advantage to comparethe well and injured extremity on the same plate; that thin parts aremore easily radiographed than thick parts ; that it is important to takeradiographs of a fracture from two points of view ; that a record of theposition of the tube with reference to the plate is necessary (see ChapterIII, page 87), and of the relative position of the plate and the part to bephotographed. When these radiographs were taken, the tube was 70 centimetresfrom the plate, and, as a rule, opposite the fracture. I do not give cuts 474 l^HE ROENTGEN RAYS IN MEDICINE AND SURGERY of stereoscopic pictures, as they do not lend themselves readily todemonstration without a stereoscope.

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Fig. 248. The light foreign bodies at left of cut, resembling pieces of metal, are pieces of iodo-form. Both bones of the leg have been fractured, but the fracture of the tibia is obscured by theiodoform. (This radiograph was taken on bromide paper, which was then coated with oil, and silverprints were made from it. In this cut the parts that would be dark in a print made from an ordmaryglass negative are light; the iodoform obstructs the X-rays and casts a shadow as does lead.) FRACTURES AND DISLOCATIONS . 475 Skull. —If a fracture of the skull has occurred, or is suspected, it iswell first to examine the head carefully with the fluorescent screen, andto follow so far as may be possible the outline of the interior as well asthe exterior of the bones of the cranium, as this examination mayenable the practitioner to select the best point of view from which totake the photograph. By point of view I mean the best positionboth for the vacuum tube and the photographic plate with referenc

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