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 (1901)
Williams, Francis H. (Francis Henry), 1852-1936 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 123
tube in the case of afractured leg or hand, for instance, is not placed, of course, under themedian line, but directly under the point to be photographed. The sameprinciple for finding the proper position which is described on page 66,however, applies in this case. A Hue with weights on either end… … stretcher. Next, the distance between the metal washer (see page 8y)and the plumb-line near it against the stretcher is measured, and is METHODS OF EXAMINATION 93 found to be x centimetres.^ The physician then sights from plumb-line to plumb-line to obtain the line on which the tube should be…
Radiography · X-rays
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