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Title: American X-ray journal
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: X-Rays Radiography
Publisher: St. Louis : American X-Ray Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
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for your inspection, in proof ofthe foregoing statements, a few photographs. Fig. 1 is a skiagraph showing a bullet of32 caliber in the chest. This ball enteredin the fourth interspace on the right sideof the sternum, passing upward and back-ward. Immediately after the injury it wasprobed for, but was not found. That itpassed through the lung there is no doubt,as blood was expectorated freely. Patientwas sent to the x ray laboratory, and the ball was located in the trapezious muscleabout an inch from the surface. It wasremoved through a very small incision.The man recovered. Fig. 2 shows a 22-caliber ball in the foot.This skiagraph was made with the shoeand sock on, which only adds to the won-der of the x ray work. The bullet waseasily removed after being located. The accompanying shadowgraph (Fig.381 shows a foreign body located in theesophagus just behind the larynx. Theshadowgraph is of a six-year old girl, fromCentral Indiana, who was sent to methrough the kindness of Dr. Woody to
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730 THE AMERICAN X-RAY JOURNAL- locate a brass rivet which the child hadaccidentally swallowed seven monthspreviously. She came to me very much emaciated,having been unable to swallow any thingexcept a small quantity of liquids for sevenmonths. She presented a livid appearanceabout the face and neck. With mouthopen, nostrils dilated, head thrown back,and gasping for breath, she presented apitiful picture. The history given to me by her father isas follows: Seven months ago, while shewas playing with an old brass rivet whichI removed from a threshing machine belt,she swallowed it. It has the cap battered sleep, for unconscious as she was duringher sleeping moments, she was unable tomake the necessary effort to keep uprespiration. At present, and in the last week, hermother or myself have watched her everynight, and when she stopped breathing wewould arouse her and with her voluntaryefforts she was enabled to carry on respira-tion Deprived of her rest and nourish-ment, she has grown qui

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