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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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ut up in tablet form by the An-tikamnia Chemical Co., and will meet thewant so much felt by the medical profes-sion. It is with a great deal of pride we areable to embellish our portrait page witha half-tone of Dr. S. H. Monell, of NewYork City. Dr. Monell is regarded asone of the foremost thinkers of the worldand in electro-therapeutics has donemore for static electricity than any livingman. His voluminous writings havemade for him a living history. His bookson the use of electric currents in x-raywork and in electro-therapeutics, so es-sentially personal, has had an enorm-ous sale. As an author, teacher, scholar,he is at the top, and yet in the prime oflife, battling for greater achievements,—as he says, I am not half done. 576 THE AMERICAN X-RAY JOURNAL- A TUBE HOLDER. light tight case. Not to protect a plate from this is like trying to take an ordi- by dr. william rollins. nary photograph without a camera to An x-light tube fills a room with a cut off all light except what comes
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shining mist to which a photographic through the lens. As far as possibleplate is sensitive though enclosed in a therefore the patient should be covered THE AMERICAN X-RAY JOURNAL 677 by a non-radiable screen having a holeto admit the narrow cone of rays re-quired to light the part to be photo-graphed. A second important matter isto have the tube enclosed in a compar-atively non-radiable box so that no x-light can escape except what comesthrough a small opening in the attacheddiaphragm. This box should be so ar-ranged as to be capable of being put inany position in relation to the patient.The accompanying figure shows a con-venient tube holder. A is a hollow brass tube two inches indiameter, attached by a screw thread toa strong base. This tube is high enoughto allow the tube box to be brought ashigh as the head of a patient in an up-right position. Inside the upright is aheavy lead weight to balance the wholetube box and attachments, so that they-stay in any position. A cord going ov

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