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Title: Practical electro-therapeutics and X-ray therapy : with chapters on phototherapy, X-ray in eye surgery, X-ray in dentistry, and medico-legal aspect of the X-ray
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Martin, James Madison, 1866-1947
Subjects: Electrotherapeutics X-rays Diagnosis, Radioscopic Eye Electric Stimulation Therapy X-Ray Therapy Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures
Publisher: St. Louis : C.V. Mosby
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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es from the trachea andbronchus (usually the right) have been reported. Fig. 193 is froma photograph of the boy who had carried the screw in his lung forfive months. The photograph was made a few weeks after the screwwas removed. About two years ago the author skiagraphed the chest of an adultin search of the gold crown of a tooth, which had disappeared whilethe dentist was working in his mouth, and neither knew what hadbecome of it. The crown was located firmly impacted in the rightbronchus. The case finally developed pulmonary tuberculosis, fromwhich the patient died recently. With our present methods—thex-ray and the Jackson electrically lighted instruments—this crowncould have been removed with little danger to the patient. Foreign Bodies in the Tissues.—Foreign bodies forced into the X-RAY IN LOCATION OF FOREIGN BODIES 373 tissues by external violence may be almost anything, the most com-mon being bullets, shot, needles, pins, and pieces of steel, iron,glass, crockery, etc.
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Fig. 193.—Location of foreign bodies. Picture of boy who carried metal screw in lunj for five months. Pins and Needles.—At first thought it seems an easy matterto remove a needle or pin from the foot or hand, but those whohave had some experience with the old method of cutting and prob-ing well know the difficulties encountered in such an undertaking. 374 PRACTICAL ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS AND X-RAY THERAPY These pins and needles are usually driven deeply into the tissues,and are sometimes broken into two or more pieces. The author, hav-ing had considerable experience in removing this class of foreign bod-ies, and having seen other physicians fail in their efforts to find andremove them, has devised a simple method that will greatly shortenthese operations. While aiding a brother physician in locating apiece of needle in a womans hand, and watching his unsuccessfulefforts to reach it, although he could plainly see it with the fiuoro-scope, he conceived the idea of taking long-beaked a

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