The Röntgen rays in medical work (1899) (14570499897)

Identifier: rntgenraysinmedi00wals (find matches)
Title: The Röntgen rays in medical work
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Walsh, David
Subjects: X-rays Radiography X-Rays Radiography
Publisher: London : Baillière, Tindall and Cox
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School



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9 shows an extra wedge-shaped bone betweenthe first and terminal phalanges of the thumb. Both the endphalanges were bifid. There was a family history of extra digitsand toes and broad thumbs and great-toes, and also of webbing.The fathers thumbs were not bifid at the end phalanges, but theterminal phalanx of one great-toe was partly bifid, with twodistinct nails. Dr. Beatson quotes the statement of Coats that deformities of fingers and toes are to a certain extent interchange-able, the one being transmissible from the other. He also men-tions Gegenbauers definition, of the atavistic view, namely, the * West London Med.-Chir. Journal, April, 1899.X Scottish Med. and Surg. Journal, December, 1897. 13—2 160 THE RONTGEN RA YS IN MEDICAL WORK reappearance of a more primitive organization, or a reversion to aprimary state. With regard to his own case, he considers it fairto assume that, looking to the family history of hyperdactyly,the extra bone found in the thumbs of his patient was the
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Fig. 79.—Dr. Beatsons Case of Bifid Terminal Thumb Phalanges. rudiment of another finger, and that the bifurcation of the ungualphalanx indicated how the process would have been completedhad it gone on to a full termination. Congenital absence of the clavicle is a rare deformity, aninstance of which was sent to the writer by Dr. George Carpenter.