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Title: Journal of roentgenology
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Western Roentgen Society
Subjects: Radiology
Publisher: Iowa City, Iowa : Western Roentgen Society, 1918-1919
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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an auto-mobile. He suffered a compound fracture of the tibia andalso lost appliances from teeth. Orthodontia work discon-tinued. Since that time the four upper anterior incisorshave been largely thrown out of alveolar process and pre-sent a fan-shaped appearance. There was a small discharge of pus from near gingivalof upper right lateral incisor. The four affected teeth were very loose. Roentgen examination (Fig. 1) showed only slight attach-ment of teeth in alveolar process, but no foreign body.Patient referred to orthodontist who advised extraction ofthe four teeth together with the temporary cuspids whichwere still in position. On removal of these teeth in mass, a rubber band wasdiscovered surrounding the four teeth near their apices. The band having been lost at the time of accident, Decem-ber 1915, under gum tissue and remained there over twoyears resulting in the destruction of the alveolar processto almost the root apices as shown in Fig. 1. 173 174 THE JOURNAL OF ROENTGENOLOGY
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Fig. 3. Lingual surface. THE PRESENT STATUS OF THE LOCAL APPLI-CATION OF RADIUM AND X-RAYS* Walter A. Weed, M. D.Birmingham, Ala.Radiologist, Birmingham Infirmary Owing to some obscure quality in our being which we, forlack of a better term, call human nature, we are veryprone either to ban or bless, most unreservedly and wholeheartedly, any new discovery or invention. It may be thatdesperation over our inadequacy to cope successfully withsuch urgent problems as malignant growths was the primereason for the enthusiastic welcome extended to the use ofthe X-ray. That the X-ray was a valuable agent to thesurgeon was soon demonstrated, but because it did not im-mediately prove itself a wonder worker, it was relegated tothe background to make way for the spectacular introduc-tion of radium. First greeted as a modern mystery of miracles, now,after a few years, bearing the condemnation of a few of ourbest known surgeons, radium is becoming known at its truevalue. It is not a panacea, it is n

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