American quarterly of roentgenology (1909) (14570738619)

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Title: American quarterly of roentgenology
Year: 1909 (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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htler has charge of it. The com-mittee will be able to exhibit plates of any size and numberfrom lantern slides to the 14x17 size. The exhibition of lan-tern slide reductions will be made a feature of this meeting.The committee will also encourage the exhibition of printsfrom interesting plates. The manufacturers are promised all the current they want.A plant in the building supplies direct current at 118 volts andplenty of it. The Edison Co. have a station adjoining thehotel and can supply more if we need it. They will have allthe space they require, and they can go away at night and dur-ing sessions and leave everything safe behind lock and key. Thecommittee desires to receive suggestions ifrom the manufac-turers, and will endeavor to please them in every way possi-ble. September 29th, 30th and October 1st have been selected forthe meeting-. This will allow members attending to returnhome before the opening of the college year. Plan now for the 1910 meeting. R. H. STEVENS, Chairman.
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The first of a series of X-ray plates covering the gastro-intestinal tract.Patient had just swallowed about 20 fluid ounces of bismuth mixture. Ex-posure about 3 seconds during suspended respiration, patient standing. Thewhite shadow shows the bismuth mixture which fills the dependent portion ofthe stomach and the pyloris. The dark area above the level of the bismuth isdue to gas inflating the cardiac portion of the stomach (the rriagen-blase).A portion of the stomach wall appears as a light line enclosing this light area.It will be seen that the greater curvature extends well below the level of thecrests of the ilia.—E. W. Caldwell, M. D. American Quarterly of Roentgenology 69 ABSTRACTS. A BRIEF REVIEW OF THE APPLICATIONS OF THEROENTGEN RAYS IN DIAGNOSES. BY E. W. CALDWELL, M. D., NEW YORK CITY.(Abstracted from a paper read before the New York State Society.) Although brilliant radiographs of wrists, hands, elbows andteeth may be made by almost any amateur, the successful useof the