. 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. 305. Half dollar in oesophagus. Piece of Steel in Arm found only by X-Rays. — A piece of steelentered the right arm of a man twenty years old. An unsuccessfulattempt was made to find the steel; the arm became much swollen andthe patient came to the out-patient department of the Boston City Hos-pital in September, 1899, where another unsuccessful attempt was madeunder cocaine to find the foreign body. Two X-ray photographs werethen taken (see
. 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. 305. Half dollar in oesophagus. Piece of Steel in Arm found only by X-Rays. — A piece of steelentered the right arm of a man twenty years old. An unsuccessfulattempt was made to find the steel; the arm became much swollen andthe patient came to the out-patient department of the Boston City Hos-pital in September, 1899, where another unsuccessful attempt was madeunder cocaine to find the foreign body. Two X-ray photographs werethen taken (see Figs. 307, 308) and the ste moved under ether. 1 Columbus Medical Journal, Pehr 73-. 542 THE ROENTGEN RAYS IN MEDICINE AND SUR This case illustrates the advantage of taking two ^.io, x^ctchfrom a different point of view, as two views give the surgeon more exactknowledge of the position of the object than one alone could do, and
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