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Title: The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Radium Society American Roentgen Ray Society
Subjects: Radiotherapy X-rays
Publisher: Springfield, Ill. C.C. Thomas
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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of perforatingthe intestine), etc. The gas is evacuated afterradiography has been done. This procedure hasnot influenced the temperature or pulse inover ninety cases in which it was resorted to.The illustrations show the really remarkableresults obtained, reveaUng as they do peri-toneal adhesions, ascites at the beginning,neoplasms of the viscera or abdominal walls,various forms of hernia (among others thediaphragmatic, whose diagnosis is always adifficult, not to say impossible, matter), en-larged mesenteric lymph nodes, changes inthe abdominal aorta, caries of the spine andpelvic bones, abscess, the shape of the lowercardiac limits, pericholecystitis, renal calculi,renal changes, splenomegalia, pathologic con-ditions of the bladder (simultaneous intra-vesical and abdominal insufflation), growthsof the uterus and adnexa, pregnancy, etc.—all examples for the use of this procedure.The -wTiter announces another paper for thenear future, the present one being merelypreliminary. I(C>
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/Va<^^jiy^^y^^ THE AMERICAN JOURNALOF ROENTGENOLOGY Editor, H. M. Imhoden, M.D., T^ew Tor\ VOL. VI (new series) MARCH, 1919 No. 3 THE UNSUSPECTED FOREIGN BODY AS A FREQUENTCAUSE OF CHRONIC BRONCHITIS BY DAVID R. BOWEN, M.D. PHILADELPHIA TO those whose memory covers aperiod of thirty years or more, theimpression made upon our lay and earlymedical minds by the accident of a foreignbody in the lung is quite too vivid to havebeen entirely modified by later-day devel-opments. The lasting impression is that the acci-dent is of such frightful importance and itssequelse so rapidly fatal as to be wholly im-compatible with the words unsuspectedand chronic, and of such rare occurrenceas to make the use of the word frequentquite unjustified. The writer hopes in this communicationto aid, in a small way at least, to correctthese false impressions, and to presentmaterial fully adequate to justify the titlechosen. Acknowledgment must be made of thecourtesy of Dr. Chevalier Jackson, fromwhose clini

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