The Röntgen rays in medical work (1907) (14570869129)
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Identifier: rntgenraysinmedi1907wals (find matches)
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. 150. —Osteitis Deformans of Left Leg in a Woman of Sixty-six Yeaes.Mr. Robert Joness case. Dr. Morgan. 296 THE RONTGEN RA VS IN MEDICAL WORK Bones in Leprosy and Syphilis. As an illustration of the unexpected way in which the «-rayscome to the aid of science may be taken the researches of Fig. 151.—Cyst around Femur in Man aged Sixty-six Years. (Note Clear Margin of Femur.) Mr. Robert Joness case. Dr. Morgan. Dr. Ashmead, of New York.* For a long time there has beena dispute whether certain bone changes observed in Peruvianmummies were due to a pre-Columbian leprosy, the existence of The Canadian Journal of Medicine and Surgery, vol. v., No. 3, March, 1899. MEDICAL AND SURGICAL APPLICATIONS 297 which he denied. In the absence of radiographic evidence ofabsorption of the bones of the hand and falling in of the nasalbones, and of other bone changes connected with leprosy, he hasconfirmed the view already arrived at from other directions thatthere was no pre-Columbian leprosy i