Identifier: americanjournroen09ameruoft (find matches)
Title: The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Radium Society American Roentgen Ray Society
Subjects: Radiotherapy X-rays
Publisher: Springfield, Ill. C.C. Thomas
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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AY, M.D. MANCHESTER, ENGLAND \ \ E live in an utilitarian age; every newt t discovery is at once seized upon andturned to practical account. The appli-cation of the x-rays to the study of thegastrointestinal tract has been no exceptionto the general rule, and great have beenthe resulting advances in the diagnosis ofabdominal disorders; so much so that alaparotomy ceases to be the usual de-scription of an abdominal operation, andthe surgeon now opens the abdomen witha very shrewd idea as to what he is going symptoms emanate from the stomach, foreveryone now realizes that the stomach is,more often than not, just the fuse boxthat responds to faults at any point in thecomplicated system that deals with diges-tion, including the nervous system, and theextraordinarily varied psychological factorsthat act through the mentality of thesubject. I do, however, suggest verystrongly that we, as radiologists, havefocussed our attention on pathology, over-looking the fact that there is such a thing-
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Fir., i. Peritoneum stripped and the t in, outer longi-tudinal coal exposed, which is the direct continuation1 the longitudinal coal of the esophagus, and is notof great strength. to find, and what operation he is likely toperform. The efforts of radiologists havenaturallj been focussed on the pathologicalsubjects, and the radiographic reports arealmost always to the effect that theexamination is negative therein meaningnegative from the surgical point of view—or that such and such a pathological con-dition is present. Ami yet we all know thatin a large number of the cases in which ourreport is negative, the patient is sufferingfrom definite gastric symptoms. ! am notfor one moment su bat all ga: ti i< ireer \ lew 01 ar as disordered physiology, which max quitelikely account for troubles of very realmoment to the welfare of the patient. Inother words, I think we have neglected thevery foundations on which we should havebuilt our study of pathology. It is truethat the stud\ of gas

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