Author: Francis H. Williams

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-07-08

Total Pages: 798

ISBN-13: 9781330945315

Excerpt from 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 The following pages are rather a report of progress than a final presentation of this growing subject. I planned to include as complete a list as possible of the publications on the medical and surgical uses of the Roentgen rays, but when it was found that the list would add nearly one hundred pages, it was omitted; had I foreseen this, I should have referred in the text to many other important papers. My own contribution is the result of two opportunities. The one, by permission of Professor Charles R. Cross, was in the Rogers Laboratory of Physics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. With the most cordial and efficient assistance of Messrs. Charles L. Norton and Ralph R. Lawrence, of this department, I obtained my first equipment at a time when many difficulties had to be overcome. From the late Professor Emeritus S. W. Holman, whose rare character and ability made itself felt by all who had the good fortune to be his friends, I have sought and received both advice and assistance during the course of my studies. The other opportunity has been at the Boston City Hospital. To my colleagues on its staff I am indebted for the interest they have shown by referring to me from their services many patients requiring X-ray examination or treatment. In the reproduction of the X-ray photographs there has been no retouching. I wish it were possible for me to express the gratitude I feel toward Dr. William Rollins for his unfailing aid in my efforts to obtain apparatus suitable for these examinations, and particularly for the new and better forms of vacuum tubes that he has devised. It is my privilege to express my obligation to my wife, for her devoted assistance in the preparation of this book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.