The Röntgen rays in medical work (1899) (14756939155)

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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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t may be laid down as a general law, with regard to suchdeformities, that the Eontgen rays confer upon the surgeon thepower of doing, with pretty accurate precision, what he hashitherto been able to do but tentatively—namely, to plan before-hand the mode and extent of his osseous operation. An excellentexample of this general statement will be seen in the accompany-ing illustration (Fig. 76), reproduced by permission of the Lancet.\ * Traumatic Separation of the Epiphyses, p. 97. t This section has been kindly revised by Mr. H. A. Reeves, F.R.C.S. X On Various Forms of Talipes as depicted by the X-Rays, Lancet, 1896. MEDICAL AND SURGICAL APPLICATIONS 157 Mr. Barwell says of it: ( The reader will perceive that the #-rayshave marked out an abnormal length and a downward bend ofthe neck of the astragalus as being the obstacle to the restoration•of proper form to the tarsal arch. Fig. 77, also from the Lancet,gives an excellent illustration of a healthy foot bent strongly•downwards.

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Fig. 76.—Talipes Eqitinus in a Young Man of Nineteen : Deformitybegan at three years of age. Rowland. In deformities of the spine the rays often afford valuableinformation. This is all the more likely now that operations inthat region are becoming matters of everyday surgery. A goodinstance of the diagnostic value of the rays in cervical cases willbe found mentioned under the section Diseases of Bone(p. 163). 158 THE RONTGEN RA YS IN MEDICAL WORK Numerous cases of polydactylism and allied congenital de-formities have been published. In one or two instances theradiograph has indicated the appropriate line of operation uponsupernumerary fingers and toes.

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