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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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Fig. 162.—Typical Potts fracture. made and a plaster of paris dressing applied in the laboratory,when skiagraph 2 was made. This picture shows that the appo-sition of the fragments was as nearly perfect as it was possible toget them. Here the x-ray scored a victory by giving an almostperfect ankle to this good woman and saving the reputation of theattending physician. Fig. 161 is a skiagraph made several weeks after the injury. X-RAY IN FRACTURES AND DISLOCATIONS 335 The internal malleolus is fractured and the fragment slightly dis-placed. There was a suit for malpractice against the physician whoattended the injury. In skiagraphing cases of Potts fracture, thebest position for the patient is to sit or lie on the table, so as toobtain an anteroposterior exposure. Fractures in a longitudinaldirection are sometimes best exhibited from a lateral view, and8x10 plates are about the correct size. The compression diaphragm,
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Fie. 163.—Fracture of the fibula. with slight pressure, will enable the patient to hold the foot per-fectly still. Skiagraphs of the foot and ankle are easily made, andwith a proper equipment and a little care the x-ray operator shouldhave no trouble in showing distinctly the exact condition of themost complicated injury to the bones of this region. Fig. 162 is askiagraph of a typical Potts fracture. The skiagraph was madewith a static machine six months after the injury. The ankle was 336 PRACTICAL ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS AND X-RAY THERAPY badly deformed, and the patient was unable to use his foot at thattime. In this picture the soft tissues were penciled out, showing thebones in the exact position which they occupied at the time the ex-posure was made. This was a difficult fracture, yet, had it beenskiagraphed soon after the injury, could have been corrected andthe patient prevented from becoming a lifelong cripple. Fig. 163 is an interesting fracture of the fibula. The ankle hadbee

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