. 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 . METHODS OF EXAMIiNATION 91 Fractured Leg. —The cut on page 92 (Fig. 69) shows the method ofphotographing a fractured leg. The patient has been brought fromthe hospital ward into the X-ray room on a stretcher which was placedon the wooden horses shown in the picture. The stretcher is lengthenedat the patients head by means of a shelf, hinged on to one of the horses,which may be turned up when it is desired to make the stretcher longer,as in this ca
. 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 . METHODS OF EXAMIiNATION 91 Fractured Leg. —The cut on page 92 (Fig. 69) shows the method ofphotographing a fractured leg. The patient has been brought fromthe hospital ward into the X-ray room on a stretcher which was placedon the wooden horses shown in the picture. The stretcher is lengthenedat the patients head by means of a shelf, hinged on to one of the horses,which may be turned up when it is desired to make the stretcher longer,as in this Fig. 68. Another cut showing cervical vertebrae and positmn t bome of the parts in front ofthem. In the negative much more detail can be seen than in the cut. The box containing the X-ray tube is seen beneath the stretcher,separated from the patient by an aluminum screen, which is grounded,as suggested-by Tesla. The target of the vacuum tube in the case of afractured leg or hand, for instance, is not placed, of course, under themedian line, but directly under the point to be photographed. The sameprinciple for finding the proper position which is described on page 66,however, applies in this case. A Hue with weights on either end is thrown 92 THE ROENTGEN RAYS IN MEDICINE AND SURGERY over the body and across the part to be photographed, forming two plumb-lines, a line joining which would be at righ^ angles to the length of the
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