. Radiography and radio-therapeutics . PLATE v.—X-Ray Mobile Outfit. A. Complete outfit with tent erected and front side removed to show arrangement of .Nearer view of interior of tent, showing apparatus ready for use. X-RAY APPARATUS IN MILITARY SERVICE 125 then satisfactorily execute the work of a dozen or more of these smallhomes. The low-tension current is carried from the d3mamo of thewaggon along insulated cables to the place where the apparatus is being used. ... The X-ray couch should then be a combined one, offering facilities foroperations as well as localising. A useful
. Radiography and radio-therapeutics . PLATE v.—X-Ray Mobile Outfit. A. Complete outfit with tent erected and front side removed to show arrangement of .Nearer view of interior of tent, showing apparatus ready for use. X-RAY APPARATUS IN MILITARY SERVICE 125 then satisfactorily execute the work of a dozen or more of these smallhomes. The low-tension current is carried from the d3mamo of thewaggon along insulated cables to the place where the apparatus is being used. ... The X-ray couch should then be a combined one, offering facilities foroperations as well as localising. A useful table is illustrated in Fig. is made to the design of Major MKechnie for use in a portable operating. Fig. 113.—Atlas X-ray aud operating table. (A. E. Dean.)Antennae which push the insulators G. Gate carrying the wires. - • • ■ p. Tubes conveying any tluids Ironi free of the tube-box when in thedistal protective the gutters below table table top. theatre. It is fitted as an operating table, combined with facilities for theuse of X-rays. A localising device with a small screen and plumb-bob canbe attached to the tube-box. Provided suitable darkening facilities areused, a small hospital or a private room can then have all the advantagesof a powerful X-ray outfit for localising foreign bodies, and all the steps fortheir removal efficiently carried out. Such a combined apparatus is bemgprepared for the London district. This mobile outfit provides for a plant with a dark tent for attaching tothe waggon, but certain improvements are being made by which it is hopedthe dark tent can be dispensed with. If the body of the waggon
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