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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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Fig. 1. Head rest for use with eye localizer.
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Fig. 2. Sweet eye localizer.196 HEAD EXAMINATIONS 197 1. A plate-slide tunnel, so constructed as to protectone-half of a 5x7 photographic plate while the other halfis being exposed, and to protect the exposed half whilethe second exposure is being made. 2. Four rubber-tipped legs to raise the tunnel so thatit will act as a pillow to hold the patients head levelwhen lying on his side. 3. A plate-holder having a slide that will protect theplate from the ordinary light, but offer no resistance tothe X-ray. 4. An arm or handle attached to the plate-holdingslide to enable the operator to shift the plate the cor-rect distance for each exposure, and to withdraw thesame when both exposures have been made. 5. A pneumatic cushion for the comfort of the patient. 6. A double clamp to hold the patients head and toprevent any horizontal movement. 7. A single vertical clamp to press the head downwardupon the pneumatic cushion, thereby obviating anynecessity for the unsanitary sand-bags. The localize

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