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Source: The Röntgen Rays in Medical Work Source type: book Document type: book chapter Document title: “Surgery” [chapter A] Author(s): Walsh, David Edition: Fourth edition Publisher: William Wood and Company Place of publication: New York, New York Year of publication: 1907 Part/Section: 2 Pagination: 125-310 (excerpt below includes only page 128) |
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| Walsh, David. “Surgery” [chapter A]. The Röntgen Rays in Medical Work. 4th ed. New York: William Wood, 1907: part 2, pp. 125-310. |
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| William McKinley (medical care: use of X-rays). |
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| William McKinley. |
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From title page: By David Walsh, M.D. Ed., Senior Physician, Western
Skin Hospital, London, W.; Hon. Physician and Senior Physician to the
Skin Department, Kensington General Hospital; Late Hon. Secretary Röntgen
Society, London.
From title page: Part I.—The Electrical Apparatus, by H. Lewis Jones, M.D. Cantab., F.R.C.P. Lond., Medical Officer in Charge of the Electrical Department, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; Part II.—Medical and Surgical, by the Author. |
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Surgery [excerpt]
In the case of President McKinley, the x-rays were not used to locate the bullet. It seems likely that the surgeons in attendance regarded the evident wound of the stomach as the indication for operation without a moment’s delay. As shown later the fatal termination would not have been averted by the location and removal of the bullet.