. American X-ray journal . I was asked by the dispt n-sary physician: If I would like to takea radiograph of the hand and watchthe process of healing . He told methat it had happened three weeks boy was feeding a printing pressand accidently caught his hand betweenthe type and the platten, and had thuscrushed his hand. I radiographed thehand through splints and bandages andalso discovered the piece of type metalin the finger and the pin which wasdriven through the nail. The boy wasfourteen years old. The radiograph willtell the rest. I might say that the hand 57° THE AMERICAN X-RAY
. American X-ray journal . I was asked by the dispt n-sary physician: If I would like to takea radiograph of the hand and watchthe process of healing . He told methat it had happened three weeks boy was feeding a printing pressand accidently caught his hand betweenthe type and the platten, and had thuscrushed his hand. I radiographed thehand through splints and bandages andalso discovered the piece of type metalin the finger and the pin which wasdriven through the nail. The boy wasfourteen years old. The radiograph willtell the rest. I might say that the hand 57° THE AMERICAN X-RAY JOURNAL. has been reset and is now believed to beall right. It was set under the machineand it was found that when the hand wasset abducted that the bones went inplace without trouble. The second pic-ture is of a ladys hand. She wasshot with a iz bullet and after many un-successful attempts by the good, old-fashioned doctor, to extract the bullet,she was brought to me. It was abso-lutely impossible to feel the bullet, and. FIG. I. the radiograph only could tell where itwas. It went in at the lower part of thethumb, and lodged in the interspaceformed by the third and fourth metacar-pal bones, where it was readily located. The third radiograph is that of an oldladys hand, she having fallen downstairs and supposed that she hadsprained her wrist. The radiographtells the true nature of her injury. Thisis one of several Colles fractures, which might have been treated as a sprain,and it is remarkable how often an im-pacted fracture is so mistaken, and onlydiscovered after weeks of needless suf-fering. The fourth that I send you is anotherneedle in the hand and again the old sto-ry. The woman was washing clothesand on the scrub board while rubbinghard, she found that some one had useda needle instead of a pin in some clothes
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