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Title: American X-ray journal
Year: 1899 (1890s)
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Subjects: X-Rays Radiography
Publisher: St. Louis : American X-Ray Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
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ability of the soft parts of thebody rendered further observation of lit-tle value. In the case of the vascularapparatus an easy method appeared to The school with which I am connect-ed as Demonstrator of Anatomy recentlysecured a ten-plate Van Houten and TenBroeck static machine, together with aDennis fluorometer and a series of large-sized Crookes tubes, Monell type, andthe idea entered my head to try and ascer-tain whether it was not possible to devisesome system of arterial injection whichshould comply with the following re-quirements : First, be of such consist- 476 THE AMERICAN X-RAY JOURNAL. ence as to be readily injected into the ture the smaller vessels. On these linessmallest vessels without solution of con- I made some experiments, and now pre-tinuity; second, be almost, if not quite, sent to The American X-Rav Journalas impervious to the rays as is bone ; some account of my method and its re-third, to be of such consistence, either suits, prefacing what there is to be said
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on injection or immediately thereafter,as not to tend to gravitate to the moredependent parts of the body and so leavethe higher vessels devoid of injection ; by the remark that my work in this lineis onty in its infancy. The first problem to be consideredwas as to what material would most fourth, be of such weight as not to rup- efficiently interrupt the rays, and at the THE AMERICAN X-RAY JOURNAL. 477 same time be readily introduced intothe arteries. Metallic mercury for thereasons previously given I did not con-sider ; solutions of salts I believed wouldbe impractical as, in order to produceopacity, it would be necessary to wait foreither precipitation or drying, and ineither case the tendency to settlement inthe more dependent parts was certain.I was therefore compelled to discoversome agent which might be mixed with silver quarter-dollar and an ebony-handled dissecting scalpel. The littlemass above the scalpel in the pictureis the Chinese product. (And let it benoted that the ver

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