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Title: Practical electro-therapeutics and X-ray therapy : with chapters on phototherapy, X-ray in eye surgery, X-ray in dentistry, and medico-legal aspect of the X-ray
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Martin, James Madison, 1866-1947
Subjects: Electrotherapeutics X-rays Diagnosis, Radioscopic Eye Electric Stimulation Therapy X-Ray Therapy Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures
Publisher: St. Louis : C.V. Mosby
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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Diagnosis made by Director...or Assistant .Fig. 76.—Index card. Reverse side ■MJ&*t£ttL M. D. M. D. important points as shown by the card. The number and series ofthe negative in the filing cabinet is written across one end of thisside. On the reverse side of this card (Fig. 76) is recorded the 114 PHACTICAL ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS AND X-RAY THERAPY facts as revealed by the examination. When the negative is de-veloped and dried, it is studied over an illumination box, as shown inFig. 77, and the report is made according to the findings, regard-less of what the symptoms may have been. Though short, the rec-ord is complete and answers every important point that is likely
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Fig. 77.—Negative illumination box. to arise in any case. Each plate is given a letter and a numberthat corresponds with the compartment to which it belongs, the ref-erence being placed on the film side with a soft lead pencil. Theplate is now placed in an envelope, on which are written the sameletter and number that were written on the plate. At first thoughtit may appear that this will entail too much work, but, if adopted, itwill be found to require very little work compared with the greatloss of time and worry in trying to care for a lot of negatives with-out a system. ACCESSORY X-RAY APPARATUS 115 For additional convenience a 3x5-inch card index drawer may beplaced in the cabinet. In this drawer a card is to be assigned to eachphysician who has sent a patient to the laboratory, and on this cardis to be recorded the name of such patient and the nature of theease, which will serve as a kind of cross index. The operator may,after a time, forget the name of a certain patient, but r

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