The use of the Röntgen ray by the Medical Department of the United States Army in the War with Spain (1898) / prepared under the direction of Surgeon-General George M. Sternberg ... by W.C. Borden.

  • William Cline Borden
Date:
1900
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Credit: The use of the Röntgen ray by the Medical Department of the United States Army in the War with Spain (1898) / prepared under the direction of Surgeon-General George M. Sternberg ... by W.C. Borden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    se])tic condition of tlie wound is of far greater iin})ortance than the amount of Ijone comminution. This is illustrated by those cases of extensive bone connninution which, when connected with aseptic wounds, progress to favorable termination with a inininmm of immediate and remote ill elTects; wdiile those cases in which the bone traumatism is slight, if complicated by infection of the wound, are much more difficult to treat and serious in their result. In the sections of this report which are devoted to a consideration of the effects produced by missiles, care has been taken to select the cases and radiographs which are, as far as possible, typical of the conditions treated of. In making these selections, many case reports and radiographs, which have been submitted to the Surgeon-General, and which are similar to those introduced in the text, have been omitted, as the reproduction of radiographs which only show that which is illustrated by those introduced would add to the bulk of the report without increasing its value. As the scientific value of the plates depends upon their being true representations of the objects as shown by the Rontgen ray, the radiographs and the nega- tives, from which they were printed, have not in any case been retouched other than to remove some slight defects which may have appeared in the prints or negatives during their preparation. In this connection the writer wishes to express his appreciation of the work done by Dr. W. M. Gray, of the Army Medical Museum, in preparing many of the negatives, and of the preparation of many of the prints by Private Harry Utter, Hospital Corps, United States Army. In the sections devoted to technic, the theory and physics of Rontgen radiation have been omitted as having no practical bearing upon the use of the Rontgen ray in military surgery, and these sections have been devoted to questions of practical technic, knowledge of which has proved of value in manipulating the apparatus used to produce the new kind of radiation.