An essay on the history of electrotherapy and diagnosis; . ray plate wastaken by Webster and Moore, while the actual reduction waseffected by an Army Surgeon, Captain Salvage. We must, however, give the priority for a systematic investi-gation into the diagnostic possibilities of the X rays to theBritish Medical Association, who commissioned SydneyRowland to undertake the necessary work. This he did withremarkable thoroughness, and his papers to the British MedicalJournal, commencing on February 8th, 1896, form an ex-haustive report of the possibilities of the rays with the apparatusthen at th
An essay on the history of electrotherapy and diagnosis; . ray plate wastaken by Webster and Moore, while the actual reduction waseffected by an Army Surgeon, Captain Salvage. We must, however, give the priority for a systematic investi-gation into the diagnostic possibilities of the X rays to theBritish Medical Association, who commissioned SydneyRowland to undertake the necessary work. This he did withremarkable thoroughness, and his papers to the British MedicalJournal, commencing on February 8th, 1896, form an ex-haustive report of the possibilities of the rays with the apparatusthen at the operators command. Fractures, dislocations, thedetection of foreign bodies, and the examination of variouspathological conditions, are all dealt with, and taken togetherform a monumental piece of work which must always be aclassic in the history of radiology. As members of the * This is a mistake, see next paragraph. 148 AN ESSAY ON THE British Medical Association were invited to submit interest-ing cases for examination, consequently a large number of. Skiagrams of Howard Marshs case. names of different observers will be found throughoutRowlands masterly series of articles. So far we have read of the X rays as agents of deep scientific HISTORY OF ELECTROTHERAPY 149 interest, of such wonderful properties that they attract publicattention to an extent unparalleled in the history of science,and of great and increasing value in diagnosis. Now we haveto consider them in a far different aspect. For some time
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