A system of instruction in X-ray methods and medical uses of light, hot-air, vibration and high-frequency currents - a pictorial system of teaching by clinical instruction plates with explanatory text (14756670662)

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Title: A system of instruction in X-ray methods and medical uses of light, hot-air, vibration and high-frequency currents : a pictorial system of teaching by clinical instruction plates with explanatory text : a series of photographic clinics in standard uses of scientific therapeutic apparatus for surgical and medical practitioners : prepared especially for the post-graduate home study of surgeons, general physicians, dentists, dermatologists and specialists in the treatment of chronic diseases, and sanitarium practice

Year: 1902 (1900s)

Authors: Monell, S. H. (Samuel Howard), d. 1918

Subjects: Vibration X-rays Diagnosis, Radioscopic Thermotherapy Electrotherapeutics X-Ray Therapy Vibration Diagnosis

Publisher: New York : E.R. Pelton

Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine

Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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Plate J3.—A Fiactnretl Patella. Radiographed two days after the injury. (Rebiiiiiii, Ltd. X-EAYS AND FEACTUEES 277 often furnislies precise evidence. Whether there is comminution, orimpaction, or the intervention of muscular tissue, or intra-articularfracture, or fracture combined with dislocation, can at once be clearlydetermined. If the picture be fixed on a photographic plate the nature of theinjury can be studied at leisure, and the proper line of treatmentdecided on without subjecting the patient to any tentative manipu-lations. After a dressing is applied the X-rays can verify the properposition of the fragments. In short, the proper execution of all thera-peutic points can be verified throughout the course of the case, thedressing, even if a plaster splint, being no obstacle to the rays. If thetherapy proves to be imperfect the rays show the nature of the condi-tion. It is easily determined, for instance, whether an ankylosis befibrous or osseous, and consequently the questio

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