. 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 . heard. There is a question of incipient disease atapices. Sputum examination recommended. On March 9 I made an X-ray examination zvith screen, and found adarkened area on the left side of the chest just above the heart andstretching outward toward the left. The portion of this area just abovethe heart was darker than its outward portion, as indicated in the trac-ing. (See Fig. 199.) In the early part of April I suggested to her physician, Dr. Met-c
. 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 . heard. There is a question of incipient disease atapices. Sputum examination recommended. On March 9 I made an X-ray examination zvith screen, and found adarkened area on the left side of the chest just above the heart andstretching outward toward the left. The portion of this area just abovethe heart was darker than its outward portion, as indicated in the trac-ing. (See Fig. 199.) In the early part of April I suggested to her physician, Dr. Met-calf, another X-ray examination, but she was already too weak to come ABSCESS AND GANGRENE OF LUNG i5i to Boston. She died in the following June from her pulmonary was no autopsy. Abscess and Gangrene of Lung. — The more exact location of anabscess in the lung, or of a circumscribed gangrenous area, than hashitherto always been possible, will doubtless assist the surgeon whenhe operates on these cases. The following case shows that we maylocate the exact position of an abscess in the lungs by means of anX-ray examination : —.
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