Identifier: journalofradiolo3192radi (find matches)
Title: Journal of radiology
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Radiological Society of North America American College of Radiology and Physiotherapy
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Publisher: Omaha, Neb., : (Radiological Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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491 CASE REPORTS THE following case is of interest be-cause of the pathology shown andbecause of the apparatus used in mak-ing the plate. It will be noted fromthe accompanying illustration that weare dealing with an hour-glass stomach Hour Glass Stomach J. M. W. MORRISON, M. D.Manchester, England combined with an ulcer on the lessercurvature of the upper pocket. Thepatient is a woman of fifty-one years.The apparatus used for making thisplate was installed in Ancoats Hospi-tal, Manchester, England, in 1907. It was the first x-ray plant in Man-chester and is still in use. The techniqueused for making this plate was a six-teen inch coil with a mercury gas breakwith exposure of one second, usingduplitized film and intensifying screen.
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Radiography of the Os Calcis D. RAY A. WATTERS, B. S., A. M, Sc.Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia ;T IS the purpose of this paper, inthe following series of radiographicreproductions of the os calcis, to illus-trate what seems the simplest, mostreliable, and easiest method of securingx-ray plates of this particular part ofthe human anatomy. The necessity ofa position has a great deal to do withits invention; but the necessity for se-curing a normal x-ray shadow shouldstimulate a certain amount of cautionthat the position will not be overesti-mated. The x-ray plate should present apicture of such clearness and detail asto make the pathology easily seen. Inother words, the picture presented tothe roentgenologist should be normal incontour, which is of the utmost value indetermining both the normal and thepathological structure. There are timeswhen the technician finds radiographyrather problematic from the standpointof abnormal rather than normalshadows. A normal shadow is essen-tially

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