The Röntgen rays in medical work (1907) (14570814209)

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Title: The Röntgen rays in medical work

Year: 1907 (1900s)

Authors: Walsh, David

Subjects: X-rays Radiography X-Rays Radiography

Publisher: New York : William Wood

Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine

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Fig. 80.—Watch and Chain in (Esophagus, swallowed by OstrichMan (American X-Pay Journal, July, 1898). Foreign bodies can be readily detected in the stomachs of children,and sometimes in those of adults. Thus, Dr. Scott, of Kansas, haspublished the following interesting case, accompanied with a Rontgenphotograph : Radiograph of abdomen of ostrich-man, Mr. G. W. Whallen, taken byDr. E. Von Quast. The dark mass on the left side of the picture contained116 different pieces of metal and a handful of glass. Patient operated upon,June 8, 1897, at German Hospital. Occupation, showman; 26 years old. 11—2 164 THE RONTGEN RAYS IN MEDICAL WORK Median gastrotomy. The following foreign bodies removed : 3 onnces glass, twopocket-knives (one a Varlow 4^ inches long, the other a four-blade), five knife-blades, one barb-wire staple, three screws, one horse-shoe nail, sixteen tacks,forty-one wire nails, forty-one twelve-penny nails. On account of the weight ofthe above articles the stomach was lower

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