The Röntgen rays in medical work (1899) (14753761241)
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Identifier: rntgenraysinmedi00wals (find matches)
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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Fig. 56.—Double Colles Fracture showing Ordinary Fracture of Eadiuswith Outward Displacement, and Fracture of Styloid Process of Ulna. Mr. Lynn Thomas. Natural size ; see also Fig. 57. instance, it would be difficult or impossible in any other way todiagnose the rare fracture of the glenoid cavity from dislocationof the head of the humerus or fracture of its anatomical neck. Fractures of the collar-bone can be readily shown by the raysbut as a rule there is little information to be gained in that waythat could not be acquired by simpler methods of examination. 134 THE RONTGEN RAYS IN MEDICAL WORK An exception may perhaps be made in the case of the breakwithout displacement that sometimes occurs between the attach-ments of the conoid and the trapezoid ligaments. Such a casewas reported by Dr. Eichardson :* A football-player of nineteeninjured his left shoulder. Six hours after the accident tendernesswas found at the outer end of the clavicle, but neither crepitusnor deformity was to
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