. 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. 209. M. W. Full size. bismuth and showed as a light place on the radiograph. A coin wasplaced directly over the umbilicus as a point of reference, and itsshadow could be seen in the radiograph. OESOPHAGUS, ABDOMEN, AND PELVIS 369 The next radiograph showed that the bismuth had been widely dis-tributed through the abdominal cavity, and that it had gone down intothe pelvis to some extent. The image of the coin was almost Fig. 210. M.
. 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. 209. M. W. Full size. bismuth and showed as a light place on the radiograph. A coin wasplaced directly over the umbilicus as a point of reference, and itsshadow could be seen in the radiograph. OESOPHAGUS, ABDOMEN, AND PELVIS 369 The next radiograph showed that the bismuth had been widely dis-tributed through the abdominal cavity, and that it had gone down intothe pelvis to some extent. The image of the coin was almost Fig. 210. M. W. Full size. The last radiograph, made 5|- hours after the meal, showed that therewas no food in the stomach, and that the great mass of it was on the 370 THE ROENTGEN RAYS IN MEDICI^ SURGERY left side, low down, and had reached the regio left iliac fossa. The parts which had been dark were now ne; early defined as normal, notably the vertebrae behind the stomach. The next morningthe dejections had the color characteristic of bismuth.
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