. 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 . tance from the anteriorchest wall, as could be readily determined by examining the patientwhile sitting up and looking through the chest at an angle. In thisposition the whole of the anterior part of the left thoracic cavity wasseen to be free from heart. The above conditions were readily demon-strated to the physician of the patient, who accepted the diagnosiswithout hesitation as complete and final. SECTION V OTHER ABNORMAL CONDITIONS OF THE HEAR
. 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 . tance from the anteriorchest wall, as could be readily determined by examining the patientwhile sitting up and looking through the chest at an angle. In thisposition the whole of the anterior part of the left thoracic cavity wasseen to be free from heart. The above conditions were readily demon-strated to the physician of the patient, who accepted the diagnosiswithout hesitation as complete and final. SECTION V OTHER ABNORMAL CONDITIONS OF THE HEART Pulsations. — The pulsations of the heart may be followed in casesof irregular action, as in myocarditis ; and it may be seen that they donot correspond to the pulsations at the wrist, that is, there are some-times incomplete pulsations of the heart which do not give an impulseat the radial artery. OTHER ABNORMAL COxXDITIONS OF THE HEART 299 Pulsations of the Heart in Cardiac Disease shown by X-RayExamination. — In cases of marked insufficiency of either the aorticor mitral valve, or both, the excursion of the left border of the
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