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English: "The design and plan of a private X-ray laboratory is presented as a working basis and not as an actual possibility. It is an innocent amusement of the writers. Such a plan is presented here is not without the realm of possibility as far as the financial sanity of the scheme is concerned."

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Title: American quarterly of roentgenology
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: American Roentgen Ray Society
Subjects: Nuclear Medicine Radiography Radiology Radiology
Publisher: Pittsburgh : American Roentgen Ray Society
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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The building could be of cut stone or stucco with slight alter-ations in the exterior details. The interior allows of widelatitude of treatment to meet the requisities of any radiologist.Since the above plan was drawn Dr. Skinner has suggested thatless space be devoted to the artistic treatment of the negative-viewing room in the center so that more and better provisioncould be provided for dressing rooms in conjunction with thefluoroscopic room. In the large charity hospital there is no need 22H American Quarterly of Roentgenology. of exquisite privacy for fluoroscopic patients. In private labora-tories the lack of dressing rooms becomes embarrassing asidefrom the loss of time which is a greater consideration. Thisrapidly expanding field of X-ray diagnosis presents many prob-lems in the private laboratory. The radiologist must considerthe maintenance of ocular accommodation without interruptionof interview or entrance and exit of other patients.
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Pri i/afe X /fa/ Oriem/oryMrsWeZ/S ifSki/rntr The detailed treatment of the laboratory may be briefly de-scribed as follows: Front of white stone returning on either sideas shown in the prospective drawing; columns in front outsideof cut stone with Ionic caps; window trimmings of same ma-terial, all woodwork throughout including floors in the variouswork rooms to be of oak or tile. All walls plastered with cementplaster and oil painted. Barrel arch in display room to be ofcolored art glass with a large skylight above. Lighting in allrooms to be by the indirect method, the lights being hidden behinda deep moulding, and reflected upward. ^ Columns and pilasters in front corridor to be of Englishveined Italian marble or colored marble. Main building structureto be of reinforced concrete with fire proof tile partitions. Cel-lar under entire building. Garage shown in rear to be of stuccoon metal lathe or of composition stone treated in blocks tomatch the front of the building. Skinner AND

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