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Title: The Röntgen rays in medical work
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Walsh, David
Subjects: X-rays Radiography X-Rays Radiography
Publisher: London : Baillière, Tindall and Cox
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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another part of thebook (see p. 117). Foreign bodies can be readily detected in the stomachs ofchildren. The same thing has also been now and then accom-plished with adults. Thus, Dr. Scott of Kansas has publishedthe following interesting case, accompanied with a Rontgenphotograph : 1 Radiograph of abdomen of ostrich-man, Mr. G. W. Whallen,taken by Dr. E. Yon Quasi The dark mass on the left side ofthe picture contained 116 different pieces of metal and a handfulof glass. Patient operated upon, June 8, 1897, at GermanHospital. Occupation, showman ; 26 years old. Median gastro-tomy. The following foreign bodies removed: 3 ounces glass, twopocket-knives (one a Varlow 4J inches long, the other a four-blade), MEDICAL AND SURGICAL APPLICATIONS 109 five knife-blades, one barb-wire staple, three screws, one horse-shoe nail, sixteen tacks, forty-one wire nails, forty-one twelve-penny nails. On account of the weight of the above articles thestomach was lower down than normal. The outline of the
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Fig. 45.—Stomach of Ostrich Man distended with a mass of MetallicArticles and Glass, which caused his death (American X-ray Journal,July, 1898). articles does not show, as they were all rolled up in a roundmass. Patient emaciated from want of food, as he could not eatanything for about a week before operation. Foreign bodies hadbeen in stomach for two or three weeks. After operation thestomach was closed by interrupted and Lembert sutures. Deathin forty-eight hours from enteritis and exhaustion. There had 110 THE RONTGEN RAYS IN MEDICAL WORK been haemorrhage from the bowels. The post-mortem showedabsolute union of wound in stomach ; no leakage ; wound healedin part.* In.the same article Dr. Scott shows the radiogram of aswallowed watch in the lower end of the oesophagus of the Fig. 46.—Watch and Chain in (Esophagus, swallowed by li Ostrichmax (American X-Ray Journal, July, 1898). ostrich-man. Immediately after the photograph was taken thepatient removed the watch by means of the a

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