Röntgen rays and electro-therapeutics - with chapters on radium and phototherapy (1910) (14571529058)

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Title: Röntgen rays and electro-therapeutics : with chapters on radium and phototherapy
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Kassabian, Mihran Krikor, 1870-1910
Subjects: Electrotherapeutics X-rays Phototherapy Radiology Radiotherapy
Publisher: Philadelphia & London : J.B. Lippincott Company
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School



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Fig. 124E.—SHOULDEK-JOINT (erect dorsal view).—Patient sits on a stool at the end of the table.The lower end of the table is raised and adjusted. Same sized plate is employed.
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Fig. 1241.—Shouldee-.joint (posterior-anterior view).—Patient lies in ventral recumbent position,shoulder resting: on a V-shaped board. This position can be employed in radiographing coracoidprocess and fractures of the clavicle. THE CLII^ICAL APPLICATIONS. 259 Fractures of the surgical neck of the humerus are quite common(Fig. 136), while fractures of the anatomical neck are very rare. lu skiagraphing the shoulder-joint, in order to avoid erroneous inter-pretations, the operator should always bear in mind that the epiphysisand diaphysis do not unite until the twentieth year. Skiagraph to Uxamination.—The patient is placed in the dorsal recum-bent posture, the head being supported by a low pillow, and the un-bandaged arm is extended to an angle of 35°, and is immobilized byemploying a sand-bag or small weight. In corpulent individuals the head of the humerus may be too distantfrom the sensitive plate. This may be remedied by simply tilting thepatient to that side, or by raising