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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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fig. 6. the needle, I concluded there must bea clot of blood in the eye which was prov-en correct as the eye was removed andfound filled with clot. The piece ofsteel was in the clot. Fig. 1 is a radiograph of a shoulder of Mr. K Residence, Guthrie, I. T., taken for Dr. F. R. Smiley, Boonville,Mo., showing a bullet lying on thescapula. The party who fired the pis-tol, a thirty-eight caliber, was standingdirectly in front, the ball struck the 326 THE AMERICAN X-RAY JOURNAL. clavicle and glanced to where it is shownin the radiograph. Fig. 2. Fracture of base of neck of fe-mur. Radiograph made for Dr. H. D.McQuade. Mr. L , residence Kan-sas City, Mo. Age 38. Occupation,merchant. Fracture caused by fall. Itis somewhat impacted but not sufficientthat it could be diagnosed by measure-ments; there was considerable pain onmovement of limb, he could move it him-
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FIG. self but could not stand on it on accountof pain, little swelling, one-half inchshortening; the exact condition is shownin the radiograph. It made the condi-tion a certainty out of an uncertainty.The original radiograph shows the out-line of the articulation of the head of thefemur much more plain than the cut,proving there is no dislocation. It mightnot be out of place to mention here that any tubercular softening of the head ofthe femur can be accurately shown andalso its relation to the head of the femurand its exact extent even if very small.I have two good pictures of tubercularsoftening, one in the head of the femurand one at the sacro-iliac articulation,both of special interest because theyhave been operated on and the correct-ness of the radiograph demonstrated.It is also interesting to note that in thereproduction of the ra-diograph of the fractureof the neck of the femurthat although the bonesat point of fracture areseparated and the breakdoes not extend entirelythrough

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