. A system of instruction in X-ray methods and medical uses of light, hot-air, vibration and high-frequency currents : a pictorial system of teaching by clinical instruction plates with explanatory text : a series of photographic clinics in standard uses of scientific therapeutic apparatus for surgical and medical practitioners : prepared especially for the post-graduate home study of surgeons, general physicians, dentists, dermatologists and specialists in the treatment of chronic diseases, and sanitarium practice . m .m Plate 111.—This plate shows a bullet in the thigh, but the mass at the u
. A system of instruction in X-ray methods and medical uses of light, hot-air, vibration and high-frequency currents : a pictorial system of teaching by clinical instruction plates with explanatory text : a series of photographic clinics in standard uses of scientific therapeutic apparatus for surgical and medical practitioners : prepared especially for the post-graduate home study of surgeons, general physicians, dentists, dermatologists and specialists in the treatment of chronic diseases, and sanitarium practice . m .m Plate 111.—This plate shows a bullet in the thigh, but the mass at the upper portion ofthe print is not a splattered shell. It is dust on the plate and invites attention to the factthat in the interpretation of X-ray photographs the physicians pre-exposure knowledge ofwhat ought to appear in the negative is necessary for the elimination of extraneous even the best expert can fully interpret all the shadows of a plate except in the light ofmuch collateral Plate 11^.—This plate illustrates a gunshot shattering of the upper third of the rightfemur of an officer of the Inijierial Light Horse at the battle of Elandslaagte, in the Boer and returned to duty without amputation. The picture was taken by LieutenantBruce. (Rebman, Ltd.) X-EAYS IN MILITARY SURGERY 389 on tte right side. There was considerable bruising down the insideof the right arm and slight bruising of the chest-wall on the rightside, but no bullet could be found in the arm or thorax. On examin-ing the body further the bullet was seen lying just above the rightgreat trochanter. There were no symptoms indicating that the bullethad penetrated so far. In another man the bullet entered on the rightside of the thorax about four inches below the axilla after passingthrough the right arm. It was found lying close to the axillary-wallof the thorax on the opposite side. A number of patients brought up for examination had whatlooked like a Mauser wound of e
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