Authors: T MELLOR TYSON WILLIAM S NEWCOMET
Publish Date: 1900/01/13
Volume: XXXIV, Issue: 2, Pages: 67-70
Abstract
The subject on which I would like to say a few words has been quite thoroughly dealt with by Dr F H Williams of Boston and my object is not to go into the methods as much as to report a number of cases which were admitted to the Rush Hospital for the Treatment of Consumption in Philadelphia and of which radiographs of the thorax were taken before any physical examination was made You will see that in every instance the shadow which is the only thing at present demonstrable and which in the early stage is not due to the transparency of the diseased lung but to the greater or less amount of blood in the part affected in the period of expansion and contraction was present in every instance and on examination the physical signs were present to corroborate it In looking through the fluoroscope which is always
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