A RADIOGRAPHIC SURPRISE.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 98, 20 December 1904, Page 3

A RADIOGRAPHIC SURPRISE.

I TJnmKptettd Tumor* B«T«al«d la Woman's Foot WhileS«arch- | lag for a MctttU. * Photographs are often taken with an X-ray tube in brdeWo ascertain the exact position of a bullet, needle or gome "similar object which may have found its way into the tissues. Metal casts as dense a shadow as bone, while tlie obscuration due to flesh and L-kin is comparatively slight. A Cleveland expert in that class of work was visited by the jxatient of another physician recently (upon the latter's recommendation) with a request that -he make a "radiograph" of her foot. She believed that a needle had worked its way into that member. 'At any rate,' something had caused more or less pain for years, although there was no outward sign of an injury on the sole. The picture was taken and, sure eno lgh, there was a narrow, black lin<> visible in it, which wa« not due to bone. It lay right between two Tones. The needle was subsequently removed by a surgeon. Howeve.*, the radiograph- also revealed two other things which nobody Lad suspected. They were, small, hard tumors adhering to tlie bone?, and probably caused by the needle. They were taken out also/ The young woman can now walk with more comfort than ' for aeveral yearspast. .