. 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 . study of the joints the tube should be directlyabove or underneath the joint to be photographed, that is, opposite theinterarticular space, in order to show as much as possible of the outlinesof both bones; further, the diseased joint should be compared, whenpossible, with a normal one in the same individual. Further directions,for examining joints have been given in the chapter on Fractures, andspecial methods for special joints will readily sugg


. 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 . study of the joints the tube should be directlyabove or underneath the joint to be photographed, that is, opposite theinterarticular space, in order to show as much as possible of the outlinesof both bones; further, the diseased joint should be compared, whenpossible, with a normal one in the same individual. Further directions,for examining joints have been given in the chapter on Fractures, andspecial methods for special joints will readily suggest themselves to thepractitioner. These tissues can be examined with the best results if anew tube that has a low resistance is used. Tuberculosis of Foot. — Leslie E. P., eighteen years old, entered thehospital May 26, 1899. Service of Dr. H. W. Cushing. Diagnosis : tuberculosis of the foot. History.— Four months before lameness began in left ankle, possiblyafter slight sprains. No swelling noticed. Lameness increased innext two months. Two months ago it was put up in plaster-of-paris. 1 Wiener klin. Wochenschrift, June 8, 1899, p. ,W^x% Fig. 344. Salvator C, twenty-three years old. Typhoid. Entered hospital September 20, my service October i. Arm examined with the fbove result. Antero-posterior of ulna and radius. :, —


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