A system of instruction in X-ray methods and medical uses of light, hot-air, vibration and high-frequency currents - a pictorial system of teaching by clinical instruction plates with explanatory text (14570311420)

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Title: A system of instruction in X-ray methods and medical uses of light, hot-air, vibration and high-frequency currents : a pictorial system of teaching by clinical instruction plates with explanatory text : a series of photographic clinics in standard uses of scientific therapeutic apparatus for surgical and medical practitioners : prepared especially for the post-graduate home study of surgeons, general physicians, dentists, dermatologists and specialists in the treatment of chronic diseases, and sanitarium practice
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Monell, S. H. (Samuel Howard), d. 1918
Subjects: Vibration X-rays Diagnosis, Radioscopic Thermotherapy Electrotherapeutics X-Ray Therapy Vibration Diagnosis
Publisher: New York : E.R. Pelton
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School



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in a year that he knew of no definiteaddition to our knowledge of fractures or material modification of thegeneral rules of treatment that had been contributed by the X-ray,but practically in the presence of a case the concrete satisfaction ofpossessing the X-ray outweighs all abstract theories that can be con-jured up to deprecate it. The X-Ray in the Field in War.—At the first hint of war afterRoentgens discovery it was assumed by writers that the X-ray wouldbe a necessity in the field. The experience of the Spanish War andthe war in South Africa has proved the contrary. In a personal letterfrom the War Department to the author we have been informed asfollows: The only X-ray work done during the Spanish War was at basehospitals, such as Key West and on hospital ships. At these placesthe work was done under the same conditions of posing, apparatus,etc., as is common in city hospitals. There was no X-ray work donein the field, and, I think, fortunately so, for if such work were done
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