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Title: Radiography, x-ray therapeutics and radium therapy
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Knox, Robert, 1868-1928
Subjects: Radiography Radiotherapy X-rays
Publisher: London : A. & C. Black
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ilitated by administering small pledgets of moistened cotton wool. Themost usual spot at which to find a foreign body blocking the intestine is theileo-ca3cal valve. When a foreign body has been located in the alimentarytract the patient should be screened and radiographed at regular intervals.The body is thus kept under rigid observation, and should an operationbecome necessary it can be conducted with the least possible delay. Stereo-scopic radiographs taken immediately prior to an operation, or the use ofX-rays at the time of operation, when the fluorescent screen may be usedfrom time to time, will be found useful as a guide to the surgeon. By theformer method the object may be located Anth fair accuracy ; by the lattermethod the operator may be able to guide his instruments to the foreignbody. Work of this special character requires to be carried out in the darkunder aseptic conditions. The top of the couch must be made aseptic andthe fluorescent screen one that can be sterilised.
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