The Digestive Tract in Roentgenology [antikvár]

Preface The diagnostic value of the roentgen-ographic method in the study of the digestive tract is fully recognized by internist and surgeon alike. A knowledge of its potentialities should be of great value to the general practitioner. For more than a quarter of a century it has been my privilege to be affiliated with Bellevue Hospital. During this period I have had the opportunity of correlating the roentgenographic findings in disorders of the digestive tract with those obtained at operation or autopsy. This book is an outgrowth of my experience with the enormous amount of material at the hospital and of my own private practice. In the pages of this book the reader will find a presentation of those technical procedures which I have found most helpful and of the abnormalities of the digestive tract, both functional and organic, in the study of which this diagnostic aid is of inestimable value. Some of the illustrations in this volume appeared in my earlier volume, Clinical Roentgenology of the Alimentary Tract, published by W. B. Saunders Company, and I give them my thanks for permission to reproduce these illustrations. I wish to express my gratitude for the excellent co-operation that I have received from the various members of the hospital staff and to the publishers, J. B. Lippincott Company, for the many courtesies extended to me. I wish in particular to record my debt to Dr. Lewis Gregory Cole, whose inspiring lectures were my first introduction to the field of roentgenology of the digestive tract when I was a medical student at Cornell; to Dr. Russel D. Carman, whose book I read and re-read while a medical officer during World War I; to Dr. I. Seth Hirsch, formerly Director of the Roentgen Department of Bellevue Hospital; to Dr. Lewis J. Friedman, the present director of the department ; to Dr. Eugene F. DuBois and Dr. David P. Barr of the Cornell Medical College and to Dr. Louis Hauswirth, Director of Medicine, Beth David Hospital. Jacob Buckstein.