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Title: The Röntgen rays in medical work
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Walsh, David
Subjects: X-rays Radiography X-Rays Radiography
Publisher: London : Baillière, Tindall and Cox
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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Fig. 27. — Rowlands Stand forTube and Conducting Wires. Suitable for bedside work. Fig. 26.—Stand (Watsons). ELECTRICAL APPARATUS AND METHODS 63 Operating-Table A simple operating-table can be made of a piece of board 6 feetlong, 2 feet broad, and 1 inch thick, mounted on firm supportsabout 18 inches high. The coil and tube-stand can be placed onthe floor, or on a second table close to the patient. By using thesmall mounted screen occasionally, it will be seen if the tube isemitting rays of good penetrating power—a simple precautionwhereby much subsequent disappointment may at times be pre-vented. If the process can be conducted in a dark room, theordinary screen will be available ; but if it be in a lighted room itis difficult for the inexperienced eye to determine whether thetube is at its best or not. In the latter case the fluoroscope,which, as already explained, is simply a screen mounted in astereoscopic camera, will be found of service.
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Fig. 28.—Operating-Table. An operating - table may be extemporised from an ordinarybox-couch or deal table without drawers, and in the latter casethe screen can be used beneath the table-top. Numerous specialcouches have been constructed, many of them with canvas tops.The accompanying illustration shows a simple one of moderntype, made by Watson and Sons. Davidson has a useful couch (Fig. 29) which allows thetube to be shifted into any position in the length or breadth ofthe table. There is also a window fitted with a convenient 64 THE ROXTGEK RAYS IN MEDICAL WORK sheepskin tympanum for screen observations and for stereoscopicor ordinary photography. By exercising a little ingenuity the Eontgen ray worker willbe able to adapt any ordinary deal table to meet his require-

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