. 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 . Fig. 114. Simon G. April 21, 1900. Fourth X-ray tracing. (One-third life size.) Pneumonia with Obscure Physical Signs. — A pneumonia in its earlystages, or even through its whole course, may give no signs by ausculta-tion and percussion, and the physician may find it difficult to make thediagnosis. In some of these cases a doubtful diagnosis may be made amore certain one by the use of the X-rays. This point could be illus-trated by citing a number
. 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 . Fig. 114. Simon G. April 21, 1900. Fourth X-ray tracing. (One-third life size.) Pneumonia with Obscure Physical Signs. — A pneumonia in its earlystages, or even through its whole course, may give no signs by ausculta-tion and percussion, and the physician may find it difficult to make thediagnosis. In some of these cases a doubtful diagnosis may be made amore certain one by the use of the X-rays. This point could be illus-trated by citing a number of cases of central pneumonia, but three willbe sufficient, in which the diagnosis was made clear and definite by anX-ray examination, and in which this diagnosis was confirmed by the 184 THE ROENTGEN RAYS IN MEDICINE AND SURGERY subsequent history of the case; the termination of the fever by a crisis;rusty expectoration; or, in some cases, by the development of physicalsigns of pneumonia as the disease progressed. ChraBCen/rnf PneumoniaHioht-3icle.
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