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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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Resection of knee-joint for tuberculosis, THE AMERICAN X-RAY JOURNAL. THE X RAY PICTURE OF THE LIVINGHUMAN HEAD. Iti WILLIAM JAMBS MOBTON, M. I>.,Nk\v YohkCITY.( Prom Items of Interest, New York City.) To those actually familiar, in practice,with the fluoroscopic and photographicrevelations of the Roentgen ray, the ex-hibit is still a source of never failingwonder and admiration. But the publicmind, fed by the sensationalism of thedaily press, and satisfied to substitute itsown imaginative processes of what might arteries, its convolutions, greater cent-ers, etc. These results I have never been ableto repeat nor substantiate. And sincenegative evidence, on the basis of diag-nosis by elimination, is often quite asvaluable as affirmative, I reproduce inthese pages an x-ray picture of the liv-ing human skull which, as I believe,represents the highest perfection ofactual accomplishment yet recorded.
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Compound fracture of the tibia, caused by the new army bullet. Shot from 50 yardsat Governors Island, New York. be, for what really is, expects of the x-ray, revelations of the human interiornot yet nor probably ever attainable.We all recollect how during the periodof the early announcement of Roentgensdiscovery, statements were made andpictures exhibited purporting to showthe structure of the brain, its veins and This picture is chiefly remarkable, sofar as it relates to the topographical andstructural anatomy of the brain, for whatit does not show. (Plate I.) The subject was a boy of twelve andone-half jears of age. I took thepicture at the request of his parents, tosee if any cause could be disclosed for 90 THE AMERICAN X-RAT JOURNAL.

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