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Identifier: xraymanualusarmy00unit (find matches)
Title: X-ray manual : U.S. Army
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: United States. Surgeon-General's Office American Roentgen Ray Society
Subjects: X-rays Fractures Teeth Chest Heart Radiography
Publisher: New York : Middleditch
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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six, or eight marks upon the skingrouped in pairs, each pair representing a line passingthrough the foreign body, and, if accurately placed, allwill be in a regular line encircling the part. The separ-ate marks should be permanently marked, as, for in-stance, with solid silver nitrate, and the encircling linemay be less permanent, as with writing ink. We maynow employ the method of Vergely1* (Fig. 20). Ina plain card of suitable size an opening is cut to fit thewounded region at the level of the skin markings. Thesemarkings are then transferred to the margin of thisopening (Fig. 21) using in this instance distinctivesigns, the + and the —. A better method is the use ofdistinctive colors. The card is now removed and laid Fig. 17-a. The ring pointer. & 3N=€> ■^ 3=0 T T, F*G- 18- Autnor s rin£ pointer and marker combined. Front and lateral views)in bothjthe Bowden cable is shown as pushed out to its marking position. At rest Ifis.withdrawnjwell below the level of the ring.
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^ .F^! 19,-, Diasram showing the use of the fluoroscope and the ring compass toobtainMhe diagonals passing thru the projectile and the stamps to mark them onthe skin. 168

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