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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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placement; the other (Fig. 57) slightimpaction of the radius about three-quarters of an inch from itslower end, to be detected by noticing the irregularity on the ulnarside of the bone. By the side of and near that projection isa complete longitudinal single fracture of the lower end of theradius, showing a detached portion of a triangular shape in its * Traitement des Fractures par le Massage et la Mobilisation, 1895.t British Medical Journal, January 2, 1897. MEDICAL AND SURGICAL APPLICATIONS 137 normal position attached to the radio-ulnar ligament. In a latercommunication to the same journal, the author expressed anopinion that * the true pathology of one of the commonest offractures (i.e., Colles) requires rewriting in the leading surgicaltext-books in the English language. In 1899, thanks to the#-rays, one can state that fracture of the ulnar styloid processusually accompanies injuries to the radius in Colles fracture.Mr. Thomas has placed a third record (Fig. 58) at the disposal
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Fig. 59.—Double Fracture of Forearm, showing Displacement ; Grainof Wooden Splint plainly shown. of the writer. In his opinion, this illustrates the rupture of theradio-ulnar ligament described by Mr. Clement Lucas in GuysHospital Eeports for 1884. The illustrations shown in Figs. 59 and 60 furnish a goodexample both of fractured forearm and also of the service that theEontgen rays can at times afford in surgical practice. They weretaken from a restless and muscular young man, eighteen years ofage, under the care of Mr. Jonathan Hutchinson, junior, at theLondon Hospital. The patient presented himself with a broken 138 THE ROXTGEX BAYS IX MEDICAL WORK arm, which had been put up in splints a few days before atanother institution, and which he imagined was not going onwell. A Eontgen photograph, not here reproduced, proveddouble fracture, with both bones in perfect alignment. Whenhe returned a week later, the rays revealed considerable displace-ment (Fig. 59).* The broken bones were th

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