A manual of practical medical electricity : the Röntgen rays and Finsen light . Fig. 154.—Foot in Fig. 155.—Normal Adult Foot. 342 A Manual of Practical Medical Electricity remembered that the nearer it is to the screen the smallerwill be its shadow. The importance of being able to localize the exact depthat which a foreign body may lie in the human body is verygreat. A bullet in the chest or abdomen may be taken asan example ; few surgeons would be willing to undertakean operation for its removal unless they had a very goodidea of the depth at which the bullet was embedded. Th
A manual of practical medical electricity : the Röntgen rays and Finsen light . Fig. 154.—Foot in Fig. 155.—Normal Adult Foot. 342 A Manual of Practical Medical Electricity remembered that the nearer it is to the screen the smallerwill be its shadow. The importance of being able to localize the exact depthat which a foreign body may lie in the human body is verygreat. A bullet in the chest or abdomen may be taken asan example ; few surgeons would be willing to undertakean operation for its removal unless they had a very goodidea of the depth at which the bullet was embedded. Thusit might be near the front of the chest or near the back,and its removal might be either a simple and easy opera-tion or a very difficult one. To take a simpler case, suchas a needle in the hand, it has occurred over and over againto the author that after he has taken an X-ray photographof such a needle the surgeon has been unable to find it,and the patient has had to be subjected to a second andeven to a third operation, with all their discomforts, beforea successful result ensued. Many endeavours have
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