. The Roentgen rays in medicine and surgery as an aid in diagnosis and as a therapeutic agent; designed for the use of practitioners and students . Q. j^/ter Pneamo/ua J^ P/eiinhc njjaj^joj]Jon M Fig. 138. Dougald M. January i, 1900. Second X-ray tracing. (Compare with first tracingof this patient, Fig. 137). Improvement at right apex and increase in excursion of diaphragm onthat side. On the left side the lung is less dense and there is no pleuritic effusion, as the diaphragmlines can now be well seen. (Cut one-third life size.) apex had improved very much, therefore that the process was prob
. The Roentgen rays in medicine and surgery as an aid in diagnosis and as a therapeutic agent; designed for the use of practitioners and students . Q. j^/ter Pneamo/ua J^ P/eiinhc njjaj^joj]Jon M Fig. 138. Dougald M. January i, 1900. Second X-ray tracing. (Compare with first tracingof this patient, Fig. 137). Improvement at right apex and increase in excursion of diaphragm onthat side. On the left side the lung is less dense and there is no pleuritic effusion, as the diaphragmlines can now be well seen. (Cut one-third life size.) apex had improved very much, therefore that the process was probablynot tuberculous. Six examinations of the sputa were made and no bacillifound. The patient had evidently had a pleurisy and pneumonia on theleft side and a pneumonia at the right apex. It is a great satisfactionin such a case as this to see the improvement in both lungs, and to beassured that there is no fluid in the left chest and that the patient ismaking excellent progress. 22 2 THE ROENTGEN RAYS IN MEDICINE AND SURGERY Pleurisy with Effusion and Pulmonary Tuberculosis. — Pleurisy witheffusion and tuberculosis, as is well known, are not
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