The Röntgen rays in medical work (1899) (14776836173)
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Identifier: rntgenraysinmedi00wals (find matches)
Title: The Röntgen rays in medical work
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Walsh, David
Subjects: X-rays Radiography X-Rays Radiography
Publisher: London : Baillière, Tindall and Cox
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School
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Fig. 94.—Fcetus fkom an Extra-uterine Fcetation.Dr. Olivers case. 18
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Fig. 95.—Foetal Monster. 18—2 MEDICAL AND SURGICAL APPLICATIONS 223 five or six months foetus, of which one could see the head,the trunk, and the lower limbs. , M. Varnier showed to the Paris Society of Gynaecology andPediatry, on March 31, 1899, a dozen radiographs showing theposition of the foetal head in the living pregnant uterus. Theywere obtained with exposures of three minutes. Messrs. Chappuis and Varnier, quoted by Dr. Mandras (ParisThesis), took a Eontgen photograph directly after death of aguinea-pig far advanced in gestation. They obtained details ofthe maternal pelvis and silhouettes of four foetuses. Negativeresults were obtained from a chloroformed guinea-pig. The same experimenters showed the possibility of getting goodanatomical and pathological results with the rays from the graviduterus after removal, both when hardened in alcohol and whenfrozen. Messrs. Varnier and Chappuis have obtained a Eontgen raypicture of several foetuses in the uterus of a living guinea-