Bismuth paste in chronic suppurations : its diagnostic importance and therapeutic value / by Emil G. Beck ... with an introduction by Carl Beck, M. D., and a chapter on the application of bismuth paste in the treatment of chronic suppuration of the nasal accessory sinuses and the ear, by Joseph C. Beck, M. D. With eighty-one engravings, nine diagrammatic illustrations, and a colored plate.
A surgical monograph by Emil G. Beck on packing chronic abscesses and fistulae with bismuth paste, published by C. V. Mosby in St. Louis in 1914 for physicians and radiologists. Most plates are early halftone radiographs in which the injected paste reads as dense black branching tracts against soft grey bone and tissue, useful for grainy tonal texture, ink-blot silhouettes, and branching line forms.
