Radiography, x-ray therapeutics and radium therapy (1915) (14757565135)

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Title: Radiography, x-ray therapeutics and radium therapy

Year: 1915 (1910s)

Authors: Knox, Robert, 1868-1928

Subjects: Radiography Radiotherapy X-rays

Publisher: London : A. & C. Black

Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto

Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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PLATE VIII.—Normal Kxee-joint, «, Normal knee-joint, lateral view. b, Knee-joint in young adult, irregulaiity in region of tubeicle of tibia. c, Normal knee-joint, antero-posterior. THE LOWER EXTREMITY 141 frequent in the female than in the male), and one for the Y-shaped piece atthe bottom of the acetabulum. These various centres appear in the following order : (a) in the ilium,immediately above the sciatic notch, at about the same period as the develop-ment of the vertebrae commences ; (6) in the body of the ischium, at about thethird month of foetal life; and (c) in the body of the pubes, between the fom-thand fifth months. At birth the three primary centres are quite separate,the crest, the bottom of the acetabulum, and the rami of the ischium andpubes being still cartilaginous. At about the seventh or eighth year therami of the pubes and ischium are almost completely ossified. About thethirteenth or fourteenth year the three divisions of the bone have extendedtheir growth into

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