The Röntgen rays in medical work (1899) (14570302349)

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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

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pt some portions at its base, offered little resistance to theEontgen rays. The same observer, moreover, after several unsuccessfulattempts, succeeded in obtaining a faint outline of the foetus inthe living uterus. The foetal shape could be recognised, and theposition of the limbs was evident, but the head was hidden bythe maternal pelvis. No foetal skeleton could be distinguished.The experimenter concluded that the foetal body and limbs weredifferentiated by the rays from the darker uterine walls andamniotic fluid. Other observers have arrived at more or less similar results. Thus, Imbert showed at the Montpellier Congress of Medicinea record obtained from a young woman of twenty-five, in whosecase Professor Tedenat had diagnosed extra-uterine foetation.Several of his confreres, on the other hand, suspected a hgema-tocele or a tumour. All doubt was done away with by theEontgen photograph, which clearly showed the existence of a * American Journal of the Medical Sciences, March, 1896.

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Fig. 94.—Fcetus fkom an Extra-uterine Fcetation.Dr. Olivers case. 18

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