Practical electro-therapeutics and X-ray therapy - with chapters on phototherapy, X-ray in eye surgery, X-ray in dentistry, and medico-legal aspect of the X-ray (1912) (14570476620)

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Title: Practical electro-therapeutics and X-ray therapy : with chapters on phototherapy, X-ray in eye surgery, X-ray in dentistry, and medico-legal aspect of the X-ray
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Martin, James Madison, 1866-1947
Subjects: Electrotherapeutics X-rays Diagnosis, Radioscopic Eye Electric Stimulation Therapy X-Ray Therapy Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures
Publisher: St. Louis : C.V. Mosby
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School



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Fig. 164.—Shortening of the leg from fracture of the tibia and fibula. Fig. 165 teaches its own lesson. It is clearly seen that the frac-ture was complicated and difficult. Early and frequent skiagraphswith modern methods of treatment would have given this man astrong and useful leg. The sanitarium in which this man wastreated had no x-ray apparatus, and it is because of this fact morethan any other that this man will be a life-long cripple. 338 PRACTICAL ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS AND X-RAY THERAPY Fig. 166 is a skiagraph that was made only a few hours after theaccident. It would have been impossible for any surgeon, no matterwhat his experience, to determine by any other method than thex-ray the exact condition in this injury. This case was not skia-
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Fig. 165.—Tibia and fibula. Skiagraphs were made in an anteroposterior and lateral di-rection of a tibia and fibula that had been fractured several months before in a rail-road accident. The case was dismissed from the hospital in the condition shown inthe skiagraph. graphed after the permanent dressing was applied, a mistake thatis too often made. Nonunion in fractures is usually the result ofpoor apposition. Should the bones be lapping and allowed to unitewith a false union, which is later broken up in an attempt to reducethe fracture by getting better apposition, the case is likely to result X-RAY IN FRACTURES AND DISLOCATIONS 339 in a nonunion, and especially is this true if the patient is in a lowstate of health or advanced in years. Fig. 167 illustrates an interesting case of a long nonunion oc-curring in a young lady. Both tibia and fibula were broken near thesame level. This was a compound fracture, and was treated on theexpectant plan in the usual way for a long time, with