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Title: A system of instruction in X-ray methods and medical uses of light, hot-air, vibration and high-frequency currents : a pictorial system of teaching by clinical instruction plates with explanatory text : a series of photographic clinics in standard uses of scientific therapeutic apparatus for surgical and medical practitioners : prepared especially for the post-graduate home study of surgeons, general physicians, dentists, dermatologists and specialists in the treatment of chronic diseases, and sanitarium practice
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Monell, S. H. (Samuel Howard), d. 1918
Subjects: Vibration X-rays Diagnosis, Radioscopic Thermotherapy Electrotherapeutics X-Ray Therapy Vibration Diagnosis
Publisher: New York : E.R. Pelton
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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area of the tissues is successivelybrought into the field defined by the markers the whole of an extrem-ity can be examined with all distortion eliminated. Both hands of theexaminer are free, as either a mounted screen or the fluoroscope isheld securely in place. No particular preliminary posing of the tubeis required. As all parts of the frame are both separately and collec-tively adjustable at any height, angle, or position, it can be sightedtoward the focus of a tube situated anywhere, just as a rifle can besighted at any target. This independence of an exact position forthe tube is a great convenience to the operator. The actual setting ofthe adjustments of the markers in the frame is almost as simple assetting the hands of a watch, and can be almost as quickly done. Ofcourse an object-lesson demonstrates this facility far better than canbe told in print. Directions for Use on an Examining-Table.—With the patient re-cumbent, examinations require that the frame be lifted from the
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Plate G1.—This instruction plate shows the Authors Examining Frame with its adjusta-ble wooden floor used to level a part and support it during examination or localization. Turn-ing the long spiral screws raises and lowers the upper shelf on which the part rests. Note theexact register of the two vertical guides in the axis of the rays. The central radiation coin-cides with the point where the horizontal and vertical guides intersect and the fracture, lesion;or bullet to be examined or located is seen without distortion when brought into this exactfield. The plate teaches its technic at sight.

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