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Title: American quarterly of roentgenology
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: American Roentgen Ray Society
Subjects: Nuclear Medicine Radiography Radiology Radiology
Publisher: Pittsburgh : American Roentgen Ray Society
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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the crude apparatus could bemanipulated at this undeveloped stage, the services of anexpert or a specialist were hardly considered necessary, asis the case to-day. Not having the time to devote to it him-self, the physician or the surgeon who realized the need ofwhatever X-ray work could then be accomplished, naturallyplaced it in the hands of someone under him. As a result,a large part of the early X-ray work, at least in this country,was, on the one hand, turned over to under assistants oreven individuals with no medical training, such as hospitalpharmacists or nurses; or on the other hand, patients weresent to expert electricians or physicists who were workingwith X-ray apparatus from a purely scientific standpoint, oreven to dealers in X-ray equipment. The subsequent rapid development of X-ray work alongall lines soon called for the skill and experience of an expert,who not only understood the manipulation of the more com-plicated apparatus, the nature of the X-ray output, and the
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CARCINOMA OF CLAVICLE AND ACROMION. (Metastasis from Stomach.)W. C. HILL, M. D.

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