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 (14570356629)

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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 133.—Renal Calculus (Walsha-.n). Case of a woman age thirty-three. Weight ofstone on removal was It-s ounces, composed partly of calcium oxalate, partly phosphatic, thelatter predominating. Recovery. The effect of reducing the radiograph to book size is wellshown by the next picture of the calculus after removal. The shadow presents the appear-ance of two stones, but it proved to be a single calculus filling nearly the whole pelvis of theright kidney. (Rebn-an, Ltd.)

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Plate 121,—Life-size radiograph of the preceding renarcalciilnsnft.er body. (Rel)nian, Ltd.) , removal from the STUDIES IN THE X-EAY DIAGNOSIS OF CALCULI 305 tion of soft and flexible metallic sounds into tlie ureters and kidneysfor tlie purpose of securing accessory shadows as aids to diagnosis. OnOctober 24, 1901, Dr. Schmidt wrote tbe author that since bis paperbefore tbe American Medical Association tbey bad bad additional casesin wbicb tbe method had been of great service. Tbe lines of themetallic sounds stand out beautifully in the negatives, and show thecourse and situation of the ureters and the contour and size of thepelvis of tbe kidney. We use for sounds for this purpose lead-wire of different sizesand flexibility. We melt one end into a small ball. Lead-wire hassufficient tensile strength to stand manipulation without breaking, and,on the other hand, is so soft and pliable that injury to the tissues ofthe ureters and kidney is impossible even when there is dislocation of

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