. 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 . FlG. 388. Shows a radiograph of the calculi after they had been removed from the kidney. ances seen on the radiograph, — as often the dry negative will revealclearly what the print at most suggests. Further, some things may beseen during the development of the plate, which are not apparent Flc, 3;-;y. Radiograph mI tlic kidney utter removal. Comparison of X-Ray Negative and Fluorescent Screen. — The fluo-rescent screen is not so satisfactor
. 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 . FlG. 388. Shows a radiograph of the calculi after they had been removed from the kidney. ances seen on the radiograph, — as often the dry negative will revealclearly what the print at most suggests. Further, some things may beseen during the development of the plate, which are not apparent Flc, 3;-;y. Radiograph mI tlic kidney utter removal. Comparison of X-Ray Negative and Fluorescent Screen. — The fluo-rescent screen is not so satisfactory as X-ray negatives in making exami- I CALCULI 621 i nations for calculi, and should not be employed for this purpose, for,j unless the stones are large and made up of oxalate or phosphate of cal-I cium, they would not be detected on the fluorescent screen. I Fenwicks Method of Examination of Kidney outside the Body. Fcnwicki j^as examined the kidney with the fluorescent screen after ithas been taken out from the patients loin. This procedure, as he states,would not always be possible, as in some patients the blood vessels aret(K) short to permit of it; further, this method might entail delay, for ifthe surgeon who took out the kidney should also make the X-ray ex-amination, he would be obliged to remain in a darkened room for tenminutes before he could use the fluorescent screen properly, as it wouldbe entirely useless to give any
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