Röntgen rays and electro-therapeutics - with chapters on radium and phototherapy (1910) (14755042681)

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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. 163.- -Arthropathies of the knee-joint, in a patient with tabes dorsalis,(Case of Dr. Chas. K. Mills.)
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Fig. 164.—Penny in the oesophagus. THE CLINICAL APPLICATIONS. 279 also show arthropathies, but will not show the destruction of the articularends of the bones, but there will be revealed a periarticular, semi-opaquecondition. VIII. Foreign Bodies and their Localization. In nothing have the X-rays proved themselves of more incalculableservice than in the detection and localization of foreign bodies. Priorto the discovery of this priceless diagnostic agent, the surgeon foundhimself helpless in cutting down upon a supposed embedded substance,but with determination born of forlorn hope, too often he pursued anerroneous course, only to find that disappointment and at times seriousInfections were the rewards of his endeavors. By the rays the skiagrapher learns not only the position of a foreignbody, its variety, size, and shape, but also the extent of damage incurred. A. MzLiTAUT Surgery. The X-rays have been especially useful in military surgery. Dr.Haughton has said, Hhat the X-rays hav