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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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lizing the lesion, he was given bismuth in 10-grain dosesthrice daily for over a week before the abdomen was examinedby the rays. Sometimes a loop of intestine is thrown into reliefeither by being distended with air, or from some peculiarity of itscontents. With a stereoscopic picture a good effect is now and thenobtainable. The advantages of localization of foreign bodies in the intestinesof adults need hardly be pointed out. Numerous possibilities willreadily occur to the mind of the medical reader, such as the de-tection of a forceps or other instrument inadvertently sewn up in * Medical Electrology and Radiology, January, 1904, p. 18. 11 162 THE RONTGEN RA YS IN MEDICAL WORK the abdominal cavity. The passage of a Murphys button throughthe bowel has been repeatedly demonstrated. The knowledge ofthe progress of a foreign body through the intestinal canal notonly guides the surgeon in his prognosis, but also affords reliefto the anxiety of the patient and his friends. For instance, a
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Fig. 79.—Stomach of Ostrich Man distended with a Mass of MetallicArticles and Glass, which caused his Death (American X-Ray Journal,July, 1898). young lady was brought to the writer to be radiographed. Shehad swallowed a pin six days previously, and had taken purgativesfreely for several days. She then grew alarmed, and consulteda medical man. The radiogram showed a pin apparently aboutmidway in the ascending colon, and a prognosis of speedy passage MEDICAL AND SURGICAL APPLICATIONS 163 was made. In this case the finding of a pin in the abdomen of awell-nourished girl of nineteen must be regarded as a fortunateresult. Foreign bodies can be detected in the pelvis, either in the rectumor the bladder. Calculi in this and in other parts of the abdominalcavity will be discussed in another part of the book (see p. 172).

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