The Röntgen rays in medical work (1907) (14570843529)

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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

Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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Fig. 118.—Separation and Displacement of Lower Femoral Epiphysis.Hutchinson and Barnard. way the usual result was rapid recovery, with perfect movementof the knee, and without shortening or deformity of the leg (seeFigs. 118-120). Dislocation of the Epiphysis of a Metacarpal Bone. Mr. E. H. Herring, of Ballarat, found the above rare conditionin a boy of ten who had injured his hand by a fall from a tree. * Lancet, April 21, 1900, p. 1131. 16—2 244 THE RONTGEN RA YS IN MEDICAL WORK On examination there was found on the palmar surface of the righthand over the neck of the first metacarpal bone a small, immovable,rounded, hard nodule, of about the size of a pea. Several medicalmen diagnosed the case as one of exostosis. Treatment failed tokeep the nodule in place, and finally it was excised.

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Fig. 119.—Dissection of Dislocated Femoral Epiphysis.(Medical Review.) Separation of Metacarpal Epiphyses. Mr. H. L. Barnard* has published a description with a capital radio-gram of separation of the epiphyses of the heads of the four outermetatarsal bones in a boy aged thirteen. The end of one diaphysismade a painful projection on the dorsum of the foot, and was re-moved by Mr. Mansell-Moullin. * British Medical Journal (see radiogram), December 1, 1300, p. 1568. MEDICAL AND SURGICAL APPLICATIONS (d) CONGENITAL AND OTHER BONY DEFORMITIES. The underlying bone conditions of many deformities of the humanbody can be clearly demonstrated by means of the rays. Formerlyit was possible to study such deformities only after death, and uponthe dry bone, but radiography has now made ascertainable theactual state of affairs upon the living body.

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