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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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Kieder in their one-secondradiographs of the thorax (and which is useful from the feet to thehead), proceed as follows: In a convenient part of the operating-roomerect two narrow vertical runners sixteen inches apart, in the groovesof which will slide like a sledge the feet of a wooden frame with afront board 14 x 17 inches in size. On this front board tack a plateof smooth sheet-brass one-sixteenth of an inch thick to serve as ametallic backing for all plates exposed. On each side of the movable 54 STUDIES m X-EAY DIAGNOSIS frame arrange a strap or means of steadying the part exposed in closecontact witli tlie film. On each side of the front of this frame arrangean adjustable piece to i^tain any size plate from 14 x IT down to8 X 10, with a narrow ledge below to complete the holder. Fromthe centre of the plate-carrier run a cord over a pulley in the topcross-bar of the apparatus with a counterpoise weight at the end soas to balance the exposing frame at any desired height to which it
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Fig. 4.—Sliding frame plate-holder for exposures of the thorax by Von Ziemssens method described in text. is moved. Add a set-screw to fix it in position when localized for thepatient. From the most convenient side of the frame build out apermanent rigid arm for a tube-holder which will retain a fixed focusof the anode at right-angles with the exact centre of the frame andtwenty inches from the plate, so that all plates exposed mil be auto-matically centred without further detail. The frame and tube-holderbeing connected the tube will accompany all adjustments of the frameto suit the height of different patients, and of any part of the body POSTUEING AND EXPOSING APPLIANCES 55 whicli it is desired to radiograph in the erect position. It will befound of great practical convenience, not less for the foot and leg thanfor the trunk. Sitting or standing patients can he posed in manyconvenient ways with this device. Protection of Film from Heat and Perspiration of Patient.—Whenheavy par

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