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) (14570476100)

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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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ith the result that always follows—shortening of the leg. Thetime has passed when there is any excuse for such a result. Ifthere is any question as to the position of the bones after the per-manent dressing is put on, a skiagraph should be made, which, ifproperly done, should settle all controversy as to the relation ofthe fragments to each other. The leg from which this skiagraphwas made was injured in a railroad accident, and was followed bythe customary suit for damage. Railroads and corporations paydearly for neglect and carelessness in the surgical and medical at-tention that these fracture cases receive. Conditions are improving,but entirely too slowly, and at this rate it will take several yearsfor the average surgeon to recognize the absolute necessity of well- X-RAY IN FRACTURES AND DISLOCATIONS 337 made skiagraphs before and after reductions in all fractures andin most dislocations. Corporations should, where they are liable,demand skiagraphic records of all bone injuries.

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Fig. 164.—Shortening of the leg from fracture of the tibia and fibula. Fig. 165 teaches its own lesson. It is clearly seen that the frac-ture was complicated and difficult. Early and frequent skiagraphswith modern methods of treatment would have given this man astrong and useful leg. The sanitarium in which this man wastreated had no x-ray apparatus, and it is because of this fact morethan any other that this man will be a life-long cripple. 338 PRACTICAL ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS AND X-RAY THERAPY Fig. 166 is a skiagraph that was made only a few hours after theaccident. It would have been impossible for any surgeon, no matterwhat his experience, to determine by any other method than thex-ray the exact condition in this injury. This case was not skia-

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