Practical electro-therapeutics and X-ray therapy - with chapters on phototherapy, X-ray in eye surgery, X-ray in dentistry, and medico-legal aspect of the X-ray (1912) (14754826074)

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Title: Practical electro-therapeutics and X-ray therapy : with chapters on phototherapy, X-ray in eye surgery, X-ray in dentistry, and medico-legal aspect of the X-ray

Year: 1912 (1910s)

Authors: Martin, James Madison, 1866-1947

Subjects: Electrotherapeutics X-rays Diagnosis, Radioscopic Eye Electric Stimulation Therapy X-Ray Therapy Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures

Publisher: St. Louis : C.V. Mosby

Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine

Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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Fig. 173.—Congenital dislocation of the hip. location of the hip shown in Figs. 172 and 173. These cases shouldhave the femurs reduced according to the Lorenz method and skia-graphs made during the period of recovery. By this means muchinformation could be gained as to the actual changes that take placein re-establishing the acetabulum, and making for the patient a hip 348 PRACTICAL ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS AND X-RAY THERAPY that comes very close to the normal in both appearance and func-tion. Fig. 174 plainly shows an old ununited intracapsular fractureof the head of the femur. It will be seen that the greater trochan-ter is too high, and there is a marked displacement downward of

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Fig. 174.—Skiagrapn of adult hip made with a sinegran in three seconds. Shows an old ununited fracture. the head of the femur at the line of fracture. Fractures of thisparticular kind are quite common in elderly people, and frequentlyprove fatal. Bones of the Pelvis.—Fractures in the pelvic bones are quitecommon, and may occur at any age, but are most frequent in adult X-RAY IN FRACTURES AND DISLOCATIONS 349 life. The clinical diagnosis of fractures of the pelvis are usually notvery difficult, but the exact determination of their location and ex-tent is extremely difficult, if not impossible. Only the x-ray willreveal the conditions existing in fractured pelvic bones. Good skia-graphs of this region in thick subjects are sometimes very difficultto make. Where the injury is on one side, a general exposure shouldbe made on an 11x14 plate to get a correct idea of the condition.

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