Walsh, David · London : Baillière, Tindall and Cox · leaf 92
he joint. Lead is exceedingly opaque to therays, and hence the new method doesyeomans service in gunshot wounds.The erratic course taken by bullets afterentering the body often renders theirdiscovery, under the conditions of ordinary surgery, a matter ofimpossibility. By means of a Eontgen ray… … Fig. 31.—Finger show-ing Absorption ofBone and FibrousAnchylosis. 80 THE RONTGEN RAYS IN MEDICAL WORK event, moreover, the shock entailed by prolonged manipulationwill be avoided. The Eontgen method may also be of service inthis class of wounds by proving the absence of a bullet. Indoubtful cases…
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