A system of instruction in X-ray methods and medical uses of light, hot-air, vibration and high-frequency currents - a pictorial system of teaching by clinical instruction plates with explanatory text (14570284119)

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Title: A system of instruction in X-ray methods and medical uses of light, hot-air, vibration and high-frequency currents : a pictorial system of teaching by clinical instruction plates with explanatory text : a series of photographic clinics in standard uses of scientific therapeutic apparatus for surgical and medical practitioners : prepared especially for the post-graduate home study of surgeons, general physicians, dentists, dermatologists and specialists in the treatment of chronic diseases, and sanitarium practice
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Monell, S. H. (Samuel Howard), d. 1918
Subjects: Vibration X-rays Diagnosis, Radioscopic Thermotherapy Electrotherapeutics X-Ray Therapy Vibration Diagnosis
Publisher: New York : E.R. Pelton
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School



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mtifnt ;;f7^^^^Ju^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^-^^y Examinations Designed by Dr. Hoffmann. Themo w!i J*^ *^®- ^ ^^ *^^ operator views from the front. At the left is seen the mSa « JiT^ ^i^? ■^^ i *^°°* °^ *^^^ P^tent. On the light is a plate-holder formakmg a radiograph of the part after the fluoroscopic inspection. up and down between two posts. These upright supports are con-nected at the top by a cross-bar, and are mounted on a substantialplatform upon which the subject stands or is seated on a stool. TheAveight of the patient thus anchors the apparatus firmly on the floor. 100 STUDIES m X-EAY DIAGNOSIS Tlie movable frame is mounted with brass side-pieces and isadjustable to any height of the stand. The movable frame is thenfitted with three vertical and three horizontal metal cross-bars likestout knitting-needles. These are also movable, and the edges of the
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Fig. 12.—Back view of Dr. Hoffmanns measuring stand for X-ray examinations. frame are marked with a millimetre scale so that the distance separat-ing the parallel wires can be read. One of the upright posts of thestand is provided with three rests similar to the head-rest used^ byphotographers to aid in holding the patient in position. At the sidesof the stand are two accessory frames on hinges, one for receiving a STUDIES IN FLUOKOSCOPIC TECHNICS 101 plate if a radiograpli is to be made and the other to hold the fluorescentscreen if visual inspection is desired. Operators using the Americanfluoroscope may detach the screen from the box and use it with thisstand, or they may use the fluoroscope in the usual manner. Thecross-bar at the top of the stand carries a tube-holder with an adjust-able arm, which permits the tube to be placed at any desired heightor position. Eor practical use seat the patient in the required position onthe base of the stand. Adjust the measuring frame to the