. The alimentary tract : a radiographic study . still appear ina leading medical journal at the present date shows that it isnecessary to go over the various fallacies that have, in thepast, rendered such a description possible. Granted thatthere are fallacies in every method of examination of theinternal organs, I think that the evidence we obtain from theexamination after an opaque meal is open to far fewer sourcesof error. When examining the bismuth-filled stomach it is theshadow of the contents only that we can watch and this, Ibelieve, indicates almost exactly the actual shape of the orga
. The alimentary tract : a radiographic study . still appear ina leading medical journal at the present date shows that it isnecessary to go over the various fallacies that have, in thepast, rendered such a description possible. Granted thatthere are fallacies in every method of examination of theinternal organs, I think that the evidence we obtain from theexamination after an opaque meal is open to far fewer sourcesof error. When examining the bismuth-filled stomach it is theshadow of the contents only that we can watch and this, Ibelieve, indicates almost exactly the actual shape of the the heavy weight of a bismuth meal distorts a normalstomach is an objection that can be easily disproved by givingan ordinary meal of, say, bread and butter with tea, and theninstructing the patient to drink half a pint of milk containingan ounce of bismuth, thoroughly stirred up into it. One cansee the bismuth shadow descend like a veil as it permeatesand flows around the food. The outline obtained in this way * Clinical Lecture,
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