Radiography, X-ray therapeutics and radium therapy (1916) (14757999772)

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Title: Radiography, X-ray therapeutics and radium therapy

Year: 1916 (1910s)

Authors: Knox, Robert, 1868-1928

Subjects: Radiography Radiotherapy Radium

Publisher: New York : Macmillan

Contributing Library: University of California Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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Fig. 144.—Wrist and hand of child, showing changes in lower end of radius and ulna due to rickets.

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PLATE XXIV.—Tubercular Disease of the Hip-joint. a, Tubercular disease of hip-joint affecting chiefly the upper part of acetabulum. b, Tubercular disease of bip, absorption of head ami greater part of neck, upward displacement of femur.Radiograph by Dr. Balmond. <. Later stage of tubercular disease of hip-joint, disorganisation and displacement of head, large abscesson outer side of shaft of femur. CONDITIONS PREDISPOSING TO FRACTURE 173 (a) Interference with the epiphysis, as in rickets, or injuries, or as asequence to tuberculosis or other inflammation, involving the function of thecartilage. (6) Injury or disease of the nervous system or of peripheral nerves, astabes dorsalis, syringomyelia, leprosy, etc. (c) Want of use as in a paralysed or ankylosed limb. (d) Local pressure, as of a tumour growing within or outside the bone. (e) A senile change. These conditions are illustrated in many of the skiagrams showingdisease of bone and joints, and attention is called to them as the

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