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Title: The Röntgen rays in medical work
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Walsh, David
Subjects: X-rays Radiography X-Rays Radiography
Publisher: New York : William Wood
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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ones, presents a sharp picture. Dr. Clendinnen, of Melbourne, haspublished a Rontgen photograph of the mummied hand of a noble-mans wife, aged twenty-five years, entombed at Memphis 1500 e.g.*No less than five sesamoid bones are shown—one over each of themetacarpo-phalangeal joints of the index and little fingers, two atthe metacarpo-phalangeal joint of the thumb, and one over theungual phalanx of the thumb. The latter abnormality is to be foundnow and then in modern hands. As to the abnormal hand (Fig. 88), the reader will do well tostudy it carefully in detail. The phalanges of the three remain-ing fingers are enlarged and dark, while the usual gaps betweenthe end joints of the middle and ring digits have disappeared.The most likely reading of these recorded facts is that the fingershave been affected with chronic osteo-arthropathy, which hasenlarged the bones and obscured or obliterated some of the joints. * Intercolonial Medical Journal of Australasia, February 20, 1898, p. 106.
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Fig. 88.—Injured Eight Hand of Workman.Mr. Greenliill (early work). MEDICAL AND SURGICAL APPLICATIONS 185 As regards pathological conditions, the following appear to beprobable: 1. Old greenstick fracture (thumb metacarpal). 2. Malunited fracture (right angle, second metacarpal). 3. False joint (this may possibly be bony union ; third meta- carpal). 4. Impacted fracture (bony union, fourth metacarpal shaft). 5. New articulation (fourth metacarpal base). 6. Bony anchylosis (distal end of fifth metacarpal and first phalanx of fourth). 7. Fibrous and partially osseous anchylosis (base of fourth and fifth metacarpals). 8. Dislocation (multiple, carpus). 9. Compensatory curving of bones (twisted index-finger). 10. Bone hypertrophy (various bones). 11. Obliterated joint (terminal joints of second and third fingers). 12. Arrested development of distal epiphysis of first phalanx of middle and ring fingers.One or two of the above explanations, especially in the absence ofa careful examinatio

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