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American X-ray journal (1897) (14570290518)
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Title: American X-ray journal
Year: 1899 (1890s)
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Subjects: X-Rays Radiography
Publisher: St. Louis : American X-Ray Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and the National Endowment for the Humanities
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Pl.vte II. Case I. Six weeks after operation. cision about five inches long was made graph. Bones were separated : a trans-over: the seat of the fracture. Frag- verse section of the ends was made. It 5*8 THE AMERICAN X-RAY JOURNAL. required considerable force to extend nipples. Temperature reached the high the leg to obtain an opproximation of est point, ioo^ deg., afternoon after the the fragments, the result of muscular operation ; it dropped to normal on contraction of three months standing. third day, where it remained. Patient
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Plate III. Case II. Fracture of right tibia and fibula. Antero-posterior view. Silver wire was used to hold bones in had considerable pain during first two position. Wound closed with cat-gut days caused by the stretching of the sutures ; no drainage. Antiseptic dress- muscles ; it was relieved by moderate ing applied and limb put up in a plaster- doses of morphine. Plaster-of-paris of-Paris spica extending from foot to the removed at end of six weeks : primary 77//C AMERICAX X RAY JOCN.XAL. 519 union perfect ; bone firmly united. Thefollowing day the patient was allowedup and around on crutches, which wereused for about four weeks, when one patient revealed the fact that limb wasless than 2-8 of an inch short. At pres-ent the patient is walking to school one-half mile from his home.
The American X-Ray Journal was the first radiology journal in the United States. Its first issue was published in May 1897, its founder and first editor was an American physician Heber Robarts (1852–1922), who took an early keen interest in the new Roentgen rays. Robarts was also a co-founder of the Roentgen Society of the United States, the forerunner of the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS). In its earliest days the journal struggled to attract any important articles as the majority of the pioneering researchers in the fledgling field of x-rays would prefer to see their work published in the established medical journals. The initial subscription rate for the new journal was one dollar per annum (payable in advance) or two dollars for overseas subscribers. Alternatively, it was ten cents per issue, or twenty cents for readers outside the US. In 1902, Harry Preston Pratt, an American physician from Chicago with an interest in electrotherapy, purchased the American X-Ray Journal from Dr Robarts. In 1904, the American X-Ray Journal subsumed the Archives of Electrology and Radiology (which had previously been the American Electro-Therapeutic and X-Ray Era). Following this, the journal was re-named and re-focussed as the American Journal of Progressive Therapeutics, and this published its last edition in January 1906.
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