American quarterly of roentgenology (1906) (14757305835)

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Title: American quarterly of roentgenology
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Roentgen Ray Society
Subjects: Nuclear Medicine Radiography Radiology Radiology
Publisher: Pittsburgh : American Roentgen Ray Society
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and the National Endowment for the Humanities



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e foreign body in the sclera,and I then reported to the surgeon the exact location.Under ether an incision was made in the sclera over theexact point where the foreign body was supposed to beimbedded, and the surgeons knife struck it at once. Case 2. A railroad engineer, injured by the burst-ing of a water gauge on his engine, presented a ratherlarge wound of the cornea and iris. Two pictures weretaken in the usual manner, but no foreign body could belocated. The question was, would the glass cast ashadow? In order to determine this I broke two smallpieces of glass from a water gauge similar to the onewhich bursted, and strapped them to the side of the eyewith adhesive plaster. Two pictures were then takenand the small pieces of glass showed plainly. I there-fore came to the conclusion that the mans eye did notcontain any glass. Cas.e 3. A man, injured by the explosion of a beerbottle, presented a wound about a half inch long of thecornea and sclera. X-ray examination showed the field
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Dr. Bowens modification of the Sweet method,showing the small table for changing theplates, sand bags, compression diaph-ragm and lead weight, with smallballs for localization. OF ROENTGENOLOGY. 31 in the region of the eye to be free from any abnormalshadows. I then proceeded as in the above case to checkmy results. The small pieces of beer bottle strapped tothe side of the eye showed plainly. The subsequent his-tory of this case, and also of Case 2, shows the correct-ness of my conclusion. In all cases of suspected glass in the eye where theX-ray examination gives a negative result, I invariablycheck my technique by placing small fragments of thesame kind of glass to the side of the eye and making asecond exposure. If these test pieces of glass show, andmy first set of pictures show nothing, I then state thereis no foreign body present. In one case I located a thinpiece of glass from an electric light bulb; in another apiece from a broken lens in eye glasses, and in a thirda piece of