. 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. 262. Left colles fracture. Patient of Dr. J. B. Blake. Two views of a fracture of the wristshould always be taken — one from front to back and the other from side to side — and this is nowdone as a matter of routine at the Boston City Hospital. 490 THE ROENTGEN RAYS IN MEDICINE AND SURGERY old callus was divided with a chisel. Adhesions with the ulna werebroken away, and the smallest possible piece was sawed off of each endof the radius to sq


. 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. 262. Left colles fracture. Patient of Dr. J. B. Blake. Two views of a fracture of the wristshould always be taken — one from front to back and the other from side to side — and this is nowdone as a matter of routine at the Boston City Hospital. 490 THE ROENTGEN RAYS IN MEDICINE AND SURGERY old callus was divided with a chisel. Adhesions with the ulna werebroken away, and the smallest possible piece was sawed off of each endof the radius to square them. The ends of the radius were then drilledand wired with silver wire, as seen in the radiograph, taken about twomonths after this operation was done. (See Fig. 258.). Fig. 263. Gertrude F., twenty-three years old. Entered hospital November 8, 1900. Patientof Dr. Monks. Diagnosis : fracture of left radius. Fell down a flight of stairs, injuring both wrists;under ether; crepitus; abnormal mobility. Radiograph also shows fracture of the tip of the styloidprocess of the ulna. Antero-posterior view. New and Old Callus about a Fracture. — A callus which has formedrecently about a fracture does not show in an X-ray photograph, butlater, when inorganic salts are present, it gives a well-marked cases (see Figs. 258 and 283) are illustrative. FRACTURES AND DISLOCATIONS 491


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