The Röntgen rays in medical work (1899) (14570484467)

Identifier: rntgenraysinmedi00wals (find matches)
Title: The Röntgen rays in medical work
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Walsh, David
Subjects: X-rays Radiography X-Rays Radiography
Publisher: London : Baillière, Tindall and Cox
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School



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ing Ordinary Fracture of Eadiuswith Outward Displacement, and Fracture of Styloid Process of Ulna. Mr. Lynn Thomas. Natural size ; see also Fig. 57. instance, it would be difficult or impossible in any other way todiagnose the rare fracture of the glenoid cavity from dislocationof the head of the humerus or fracture of its anatomical neck. Fractures of the collar-bone can be readily shown by the raysbut as a rule there is little information to be gained in that waythat could not be acquired by simpler methods of examination. 134 THE RONTGEN RAYS IN MEDICAL WORK An exception may perhaps be made in the case of the breakwithout displacement that sometimes occurs between the attach-ments of the conoid and the trapezoid ligaments. Such a casewas reported by Dr. Eichardson :* A football-player of nineteeninjured his left shoulder. Six hours after the accident tendernesswas found at the outer end of the clavicle, but neither crepitusnor deformity was to be made out. The Eontgen rays showed a
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Fig. 57.—Double Colles Fracture showing Longitudinal Fracture ofRadius with Slight Impaction, and Fracture of Styloid Process of Ulna. solution of continuity at the point of tenderness, where a weeklater callus appeared. Fracture of the Humerus.—This bone is readily photographedthroughout its length by the Eontgen methods, which are of special * Boston Medical News, December 26, 1896. MEDICAL AND SURGICAL APPLICATIONS 135 value in determining the nature of obscure injuries at its upperand lower ends. The exact diagnosis of fractures about the head,as every surgeon knows, is often attended with great, if notinsuperable, difficulty, especially when there is much swelling.Incomplete separation of the head of the humerus at its junctionwith the shaft has been reported in cases that had been regardedas sprains before the Eontgen examination, and it seems notunlikely that such injuries may prove less rare than has beenhitherto suspected. So, too, fissures due to direct violence have KAL