A system of instruction in X-ray methods and medical uses of light, hot-air, vibration and high-frequency currents : a pictorial system of teaching by clinical instruction plates with explanatory text : a series of photographic clinics in standard uses of scientific therapeutic apparatus for surgical and medical practitioners : prepared especially for the post-graduate home study of surgeons, general physicians, dentists, dermatologists and specialists in the treatment of chronic diseases, and sanitarium practice / by S.H. Monell.

  • Monell, S. H. (Samuel Howard), -1918.
Date:
1902
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Credit: A system of instruction in X-ray methods and medical uses of light, hot-air, vibration and high-frequency currents : a pictorial system of teaching by clinical instruction plates with explanatory text : a series of photographic clinics in standard uses of scientific therapeutic apparatus for surgical and medical practitioners : prepared especially for the post-graduate home study of surgeons, general physicians, dentists, dermatologists and specialists in the treatment of chronic diseases, and sanitarium practice / by S.H. Monell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    ances have greatly outgrown their transition stage and are now con- structed on better lines. Revolutionary changes have taken place in assisting factors as well as in the electrical mechanism of equipment. The chief gap in the needs of the student is instruction in how to get the best work out of the best apparatus he can now buy so that he can equal in his own office or hospital the reported work of others. The author has undertaken this Pictorial System of Instruction with a view to fill this gap and to supply the correct information in plain language. It is a difficult task not previously performed by anyone, and till bet- ter done by some more competent hand this treatise may help the novice along the path of experience and over tribulations. We are inclined to regard the X-ray section of this work as the author's most valuable bequest to the profession, for it seems inevitable that, once their utility is known, the triple-armed value of the X-ray coil and the X-ray static machine must carry one or the other into every surgical and medical office, sanitarium, and hospital, wherever diagnosis is a science and therapy is progressive. For this reason, and to broaden the student's mind in a rational and comprehensive grasp of the important subject, a great many small but significant details have been grouped together in these chapters. Tests and time will disclose their worth, and nothing less than conviction of the necessity of these teachings would have induced the author to present them. Much of the writing so far published has been history, narrative, theory, argument, and report; actual working-directions have been few and far between. The X-ray has been epoch-making in more senses than one, and while an enthusiast can in some ways over-state its diag- nostic indispensability to a particular surgeon or physician no one can yet measure the total ultimate debt of twentieth-century therapeutics and practice to the professional awakening which is resulting from it. He who investigates X-ray apparatus will learn of other meritorious things related to it that need only to be known to find scores of uses in the hands of 50,000 colleagues. It is, in fact, impossible to now practise medicine without needing the aid of selected and strikingly efficient apparatus, which is revolutionizing rational treatment of dis- ease in the wake of the X-ray. Therefore, to the practical technics of the X-ray we shall here give the close attention they deserve, believ- ing that the instruction thus set forth will exert a greater influence for good than any other task to which we can direct our pen. How to educate himself along lines that will most speedily enable him to do competent work with this important adjunct to both surgical and medical diagnosis is the first concern of the beginner. When he