Volume 1

The Roentgen rays in medicine and surgery as an aid in diagnosis and as a therapeutic agent designed for the use of practitioners and students / by Francis H. Williams.

  • Williams, Francis H. (Francis Henry), 1852-1936.
Date:
1901
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Roentgen rays in medicine and surgery as an aid in diagnosis and as a therapeutic agent designed for the use of practitioners and students / by Francis H. Williams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PAGE Disturbance of the development of the bones in cretinism .... 461 Ossification of the cartilage of the larynx ....... 462 Congenital malformations: Deficiency and arrested development of bones ...... 462 Spina bifida ............. 464 Frontal cavities ............. 464 Muscle .............. 465 Myositis ossificans ........... 465 CHAPTER XIX Fractures and Dislocations Methods of examination : Examination with fluorescent screen ........ 468 Examination with radiograph ......... 468 Importance of photographs from two points of view ..... 469 Stereoscopic pictures ........... 469 Errors to be avoided . . . . . . . . . . . 471 Advantages of permeable splints and dressings . . . . . . 471 Examination of special bones of the body illustrated by radiographs : Skull .............. 475 Spine .............. 475 Shoulder . . . . . . . . . . . . .481 Elbow . . . . . . . . . . . . . -485 Lower end of radius, ulna, and wrist ........ 488 Supposed fracture of radius ; none found by X-rays ..... 488 New and old callus about a fracture ........ 490 Fracture of phalanges and metacarpal bones liable to be overlooked without X-rays . . . . . . . . . . . . -491 Hip ............. 493 Thigh .............. 495 Knee .............. 499 Leg and ankle . . . . . . . . . . . .501 Absence of fracture indicated by X-rays ; fracture by ordinary methods . 522 Advantage of comparing injured and uninjured leg ..... 522 Tarsus .............. 522 X-rays show true cause of chronic swelling of foot ..... 522 Dislocations ............. 526 CHAPTER XX Foreign Bodies Methods of localization : With fluorescent screen . . . . . . . . . 531 By X-ray photograph . . . . . . . . . . *533