. 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 . Fig. 334- Rickets. Foot, irom a colored child four years old (1896). V> ^r,. 578 THE ROENTGEN RA\^\.. .vxEDICINE AND SURGERY of gravity on bones softened by any disease; that when present inchildren it is due to rickets; that some cases of apparent coxa vara arein reahty curvature of the upper part of the diaphysis of the femur;others are cases of dislocation of the hip ; and still others, greenstickfracture of the cervix femoris. The X-rays af
. 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 . Fig. 334- Rickets. Foot, irom a colored child four years old (1896). V> ^r,. 578 THE ROENTGEN RA\^\.. .vxEDICINE AND SURGERY of gravity on bones softened by any disease; that when present inchildren it is due to rickets; that some cases of apparent coxa vara arein reahty curvature of the upper part of the diaphysis of the femur;others are cases of dislocation of the hip ; and still others, greenstickfracture of the cervix femoris. The X-rays afford, he thinks, the surestmeans of diagnosis that we at present possess, and should always beemployed. He reports a case in which the diagnosis of coxa vara hadbeen made, but in which the radiograph showed that both hips weredislocated. Changes in Neck of Femur. — R. J. Godlee^ reports three cases ofshortening and eversion of the lower extremity depending upon changesin the neck of the femur, in order to suggest that some of the casesdescribed as coxa vara may be of a different nature. Excellent illustra-tive radiographs, made by Mackenzie Davidson, are given in the believes that two of these cases were
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