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Title: American X-ray journal
Year: 1899 (1890s)
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Subjects: X-Rays Radiography
Publisher: St. Louis : American X-Ray Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and the National Endowment for the Humanities
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producethan a plaster injection, but the resultamply justifies the extra trouble. I madeup a compound of tallow and yellow bees-wax, selecting the latter instead of sper-maceti as it hardens rather slower andalso produces a mixture which is not quiteas brittle as that made with spermaceti ;the proportions being made simply by aprocess of guess, adding more and 478 THE AMERICAN X-RAY JOURNAL. more beeswax until the consistency ofthe mixture when cold satisfied me. Inthe same manner I added my vermillion,taking a drop of the compound and ex-amining it on the fluoroscope until theopacity of the mixture led me to believethat a body injected with it would haveits arteries sufficiently clearly defined by masses of vermillion. It can thus bereadily seen that the opacity of the ma-terial is marked, but that the particlesof vermillion have been so far separatedby the menstruum that the rays couldreadily pass between them and thus ren-der the opacity very materially less thanin the pure powder.
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FIG. the rays to be capable of skiagraphicdelineation. In Fig. i a small, regular-ly shaped object is seen at the top of thecut; that is a drop of the injected waxallowed to fall on a smooth surface, whichafter cooling was cut into that shape.The thickness is precisely that of the sil-ver quarter, as also is that of the two 4- Having settled the preliminary points,all that remained was to inject some bod-ies with the mixture and then determinewhether or not it was a success; first byfluoroscopic observation : second, byskiagraphy. The technique of the injec-tion process is not difficult but disagree-able. I selected four bodies for the pur- TIfE AMERICAN X-RAY JOURNAL. 479 pose, and from three of them illustra-tions accompany this article. Each bodywas first immersed completely in a bathof water heated to a temperature of 45C. and the water was then kept atthat temperature for two hours. Duringthe latter part of this time the mixturefor injection was heated to a point some- As an arti
The American X-Ray Journal was the first radiology journal in the United States. Its first issue was published in May 1897, its founder and first editor was an American physician Heber Robarts (1852–1922), who took an early keen interest in the new Roentgen rays. Robarts was also a co-founder of the Roentgen Society of the United States, the forerunner of the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS). In its earliest days the journal struggled to attract any important articles as the majority of the pioneering researchers in the fledgling field of x-rays would prefer to see their work published in the established medical journals. The initial subscription rate for the new journal was one dollar per annum (payable in advance) or two dollars for overseas subscribers. Alternatively, it was ten cents per issue, or twenty cents for readers outside the US. In 1902, Harry Preston Pratt, an American physician from Chicago with an interest in electrotherapy, purchased the American X-Ray Journal from Dr Robarts. In 1904, the American X-Ray Journal subsumed the Archives of Electrology and Radiology (which had previously been the American Electro-Therapeutic and X-Ray Era). Following this, the journal was re-named and re-focussed as the American Journal of Progressive Therapeutics, and this published its last edition in January 1906.