Identifier: americanjournroen08ameruoft (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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ing of the hepaticintestinal and splenic area. The observationsincluded the following: clotting time; pro-thrombin; antithrombin; fibrinogen; bloodplatelets. Prothrombin and antithrombin determina-tions were performed according to themethod of Minot.** Thrombin was prepared
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iiiiiiiiiSS Chakt II. ^iF..\\\ LiXE—Titer after raying hepatic area; Dotted Line—Intestinal area;Light Line—Splenic area. crease the coagulability of the blood in fromone to two hours. The effect was, of course,not quite so pronounced as following radia-tion. Szenes* found that the increase in co-agulation occurred not only after raying thespleen, but after raying lymphatic tissuesin general. In a more recent publication Stephan ^takes exception to the work of Szenes, how-ever, for the reason that his observationswere limited wholly to the measuring ofthe coagulation time, not to a study of theindividual factors in the coagulation balance.Thus a lowering of the antithrombin con-tent, or an increase in the platelet count according to Howell. Fibrinogen determina-tions were recorded according to Wohlge-muth.* Blood platelet counts were observedby the Wright-Kinnicut method. Dogs were exposed for lo minutes (Cool-idge tube, screened by a 4 mm. aluminumscreen, at 10 inch distance, 8

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