The Röntgen rays in medical work (1899) (14753763421)

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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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racture of Forearm, showing Displacement ; Grainof Wooden Splint plainly shown. of the writer. In his opinion, this illustrates the rupture of theradio-ulnar ligament described by Mr. Clement Lucas in GuysHospital Eeports for 1884. The illustrations shown in Figs. 59 and 60 furnish a goodexample both of fractured forearm and also of the service that theEontgen rays can at times afford in surgical practice. They weretaken from a restless and muscular young man, eighteen years ofage, under the care of Mr. Jonathan Hutchinson, junior, at theLondon Hospital. The patient presented himself with a broken 138 THE ROXTGEX BAYS IX MEDICAL WORK arm, which had been put up in splints a few days before atanother institution, and which he imagined was not going onwell. A Eontgen photograph, not here reproduced, proveddouble fracture, with both bones in perfect alignment. Whenhe returned a week later, the rays revealed considerable displace-ment (Fig. 59).* The broken bones were thereupon readjusted,

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Fig. 60.—Doitble Fracture of Forearm, showing Displacement.The dark shadow athwart the lower fragments is due to adhesive plaster. Mr. Greenhill. but at the end of another week the fragments were again foundto be overriding (Fig. 60). The limb was reset, and ten dayslater the rc-ray record showed union in good position, almost, butnot quite, equal to that demonstrated in the first photograph. In the after-treatment of a restless patient, then, the Eontgenmethods may prove of constant value. Even if the results ofsuch an examination be negative, no harm will have been done, * The photographs were taken through splints and clothing,grain of the -wooden splint can be traced. In the first the MEDICAL AND SURGICAL APPLICATIONS 139 as it can be conducted without taking off a single splint, dressing,or garment. By availing himself of its aid, the surgeon maypossibly avoid consequences dangerous alike to the welfare of hispatient and to his own reputation. Destot* has described fractures of

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