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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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Fig. 42.—Bullet in Brain (or within Sisull) of Living Subject. Lead Wire Cage used for localizing. Professor Waymouth Reids case. < FQ
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fee h3 CO C5 MEDICAL AND SURGICAL APPLICATIONS 99 was taken, accidentally shot himself by a bullet from a revolveron May 21, 1891. He came under the care of Dr. Blaikie Smith,of Aberdeen, who published an interesting account of his case.*When found after the accident, blood and brain matter wereoozing from a wound in his forehead, a little above and to theouter side of the right supra-orbital foramen. A director passedinto the aperture of the frontal bone, and through the substanceof the brain, reached somewhere near the upper extremity of thefissure of Eolando. With regard to the track of the bullet,Dr. Blaikie Smith remarked : It seems clear, from the positionof the opening in the skull, that the missile penetrated the brainabout the lower part of the first frontal convolution. Continuingits course obliquely upwards through the convolution, it apparentlynext entered the motor area of the brain, producing, as directresults, paralysis of the arm and leg on the opposite side. Strange t

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