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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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ry or disease of the bone on one side ofthe cranium, therefore, we bring the tube close to the other side,and the photographic plate close to the side we wish to photo-graph. Then the shadows of the side next the tube are sodiffused and dispersed and enlarged that they practically dis-appear ; while the details are sharp of the side in contact withthe plate. An admirable instance of ingenious intracranial localizationhas been kindly furnished to the present writer by ProfessorWaymouth Eeid, of Dundee. Owing to the shedding of hair thatfollowed the first exposure to the Eontgen rays, he found itimpossible to procure a cross-photograph. Although the plan headopted does not stand comparison with more recent methods, itnevertheless has a distinct historical value ; and the case presentsfeatures of great clinical interest, so that a short account may behere inserted: The patient, a young gentleman, from whom the radiogram * The Induction Coil. Lewis Wright, p. 150. Macmillan and Co., 1897.
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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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