The Röntgen rays in medical work (1899) (14570278149)

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Title: The Röntgen rays in medical work

Year: 1899 (1890s)

Authors: Walsh, David

Subjects: X-rays Radiography X-Rays Radiography

Publisher: London : Baillière, Tindall and Cox

Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine

Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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ich had been applied to fix that half ofthe chest, and also to traumatic pleurisy. It is also difficult in adults to obtain any record of the ribsover the region of the liver. The writer failed to do so in amedico-legal case where fracture of the lower ribs was alleged tohave taken place in the nipple line as a result of direct violence(fall on kerbstone). The patient in that case was an elderlyasthmatic man of great girth. In another instance the writerhas secured a clear record of ribs over the liver in a middle-aged man of average size, by causing the patient to fix the partto be taken by leaning firmly against the sensitive plate. Inyoung adults and children the ribs can often be beautifullyshown through the liver by taking them lying face downwards. 12 148 THE RONTGEN RAYS IN MEDICAL WORK There seems to be no particular reason why lateral fracturesshould not be photographed if the chest be fixed in some way,and the rays directed transversely through the thorax from thesound side.

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