A manual of practical medical electricity - the Röntgen rays and Finsen light (1902) (14803574203)

Identifier: manualofpractica00turn (find matches)
Title: A manual of practical medical electricity : the Röntgen rays and Finsen light
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Turner, Dawson
Subjects: X-Rays Electrophysiology Electrosurgery Electric Stimulation Therapy Electrotherapeutics X-rays Electrophysiology Electrosurgery
Publisher: New York : William Wood & Company
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School



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Fig. 164.—Injected Bloodvessels of Kidnev. 350 A Manual of Practical Medical Electricity also open to observation, and these observations shouldbe used in conjunction with the ordinary clinical signs.The fact that a tumour can be observed at every pointof its visible margin to pulsate is unquestionably a valuableaid in the diagnosis of aneurism, and screen work is ofmore value than photograph^/ in such cases. Foreign bodies, placed in the middle line between thevertebral columm and the sternum, will often escapeobservation, owing to their shadows falling into theshadows of the vertebral column and sternum, unless therays be passed obhquely through the body. In the Dun-fermline shooting case, where a bullet entered at about thelevel of the fourth rib, the photographs which were takenin Glasgow were misleading, and led the operator to sup-pose that the bullet was in the liver ; later on the patientwas examined by me with a screen, and, though no traceof the bullet, either in the liver