Identifier: roentgenraysinme00will (find matches)
Title: 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
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Williams, Francis H. (Francis Henry), 1852-1936
Subjects: Radiotherapy Radiography Radiography, Thoracic
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan & Co., ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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lleolus was very clearly marked. Theastragalus was indicated in the radiograph by an osseous mass insig-nificant in size. The patient can dance without fatigue and walk a dis-tance of from 10 to 12 kilometres. Oilier reports a second case of a patient sixteen years old on whomhe had operated five years before. The radiograph showed that new!bone had formed. ; Dr. H. W. Gushing^ gives radiographs and an instructive account)of a case of acute osteomyelitis in a boy sixteen years of age upon \whom he operated successfully. Two years after the removal of the/left tibia the patient was well and strong, and walked unaided and with-ij 1 Berlin klin. Wochenschr., May, 1896, p. 403. j 2 Demonstration par les rayons de Roentgen de la regeneration osseuse chez Fhomme a ^la suite des operations chirurgicales, Compt. rend. Acad. d. Sc, Paris, 1897, CXXIV, pp. ;1070-1074. 3 A Method of Treatment for the Restoration of Entire TibiK Necrotic from AcuteijOsteomyelitis, Annals of Surgery, August, 1899.
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Fig. 323. Alexander S. Service of Dr. H. W. Gushing. Osteomyelitis of the tibia. Lateral;ew. It will be noticed that the bones of the foot were outlined with unusual clearness in the radio-s aph from which this half-tone was made, — there has been no retouching, — and that they are more;;rmeable than normal to the X-rays. 564 THE ROENTGEN RAYS IN MEDICINE AND SURGERY out difficulty. The radiograph showed the bone to be intact, with adistinct cortex and a medullary cavity. A part of the shaft just abovethe malleolus and of the epiphysis was lighter than elsewhere; the pro-cess of repair was delayed there, and probably the calcification was lessin amount. Dr. Gushing concludes that the shaft of the bone is moreeasily restored than the epiphysis. The reader is referred to the origi-nal article for details and suggestions in regard to treatment. Osteomyelitis of the Tibia.—Alexander S., four years old, enteredthe hospital June 5, 1899. Service of Dr. H. W. Gushing. Three daysbefore

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