The Röntgen rays in medical work (1907) (14571032437)

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

Text Appearing Before Image:

t is difficult or impossible to locate the exact position ofureteral stones, a consideration worthy of the careful attention ofevery operating surgeon. Mr. Hurry Fenwick at one time applied a specially-constructedfluoroscope to detect the presence of small, deeply-placed stones inthe kidney. As a preliminary step the kidney was brought out onthe loin, and the room darkened for the screen examination. \ The original of Fig. 86 was kindly furnished the writer byMr. Davidson. It shows very clearly a uric acid calculus in theurinary bladder of a living male, twenty-eight years of age. Thesize of the stone was estimated at 3 to 4 centimetres, and its actual * Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, May 16, 1901, p. 474. f Journal of the American Medical Association, August 31, 1901, p. 567. X British Medical Journal, October 16, 1,897. MEDICAL AND SURGICAL APPLICATIONS 179 diameter when removed by Professor Ogston turned out to be3-2 centimetres. The apparatus used was a 10-inch spark coil of

Text Appearing After Image:

Fig. 86.—Stone in Bladder.M. Davidson, M.B. Apps. During exposure the patient lay on his belly, and a remark-able print of the scrotum appears on the plate. This phenomenonis attributed by the operator to the moisture of the parts having 12 2 180 THE RONTGEN RAYS IN MEDICAL WORK penetrated the two folds of sateen cloth which covered the plateand moistened the gelantine film so that the cloth slightly adheredto and impressed the film. To obviate similar occurrences, whichhe had noted more than once, he has since used waterproof paraffinedpaper for colouring the plates. It is open to some question if thisinteresting phenomenon is quite so easily explained, for warmth,pressure, and electrical action, to say nothing of moisture, mightbe one or all involved. In the foregoing case the patient, as already stated, was on hisbelly, so that the stone, which lay loose in the bladder, was broughtnear the plate. The rays were then passed obliquely through thelower outlet of the pelvis, so as to

the rontgen rays in medical work 1907 book illustrations medicine medical illustrations medical history x ray röntgen images from internet archive

1907

Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

http://commons.wikimedia.org/

public domain