Canons

1898 · 39384 — 1898. Cannon Walter B. 1871-1945. 1 The movements of the stomach studied by means of the Roentgen rays. In Am. J. Physiol. 1 no. 3 May 1898: 359-382. Text illustrations. Whole number 283-410pp. 2 with Albert Moser The movements of the food in the oesophagus. In Am . J. Physiol.1 no. 4 July 1898: 435-444. Text illustrations. Whole number 411-522 vi pp. Together 2 numbers largely unopened. 249 x 175 mm. Original wrappers chipped spines worn and/or repaired. Offered with Vol. 1 no. 1 of the American Journal of Physiology January 1898 in original wrappers silked some chipping and fraying. 144pp. Library stamps on front wrappers of all numbers. All 3 numbers preserved in a quarter morocco box. <p>1 First Edition journal issue. Garrison-Morton 3519. Introduction of bismuth meal for x-ray examination of the digestive tract. Cannon's discovery enabled him to increase our knowledge of the physiology of digestion and also introduced a widely used clinical method of diagnosis of gastric ulcer and malignancy of any part of the gastrointestinal tract.</p> <p>2 First Edition journal issue. Cannon was the first to use x rays to study the digestive system; his work laid the foundations of gastrointestinal radiology. The present paper written while Cannon was still a medical student describes Cannon's first experiments with x-rays to examine the mechanism of swallowing including his first public demonstration by means of x-rays of the phenomena of deglutition. This ground-breaking work was undertaken less than a year after Roentgen's discovery of the x-ray. DSB.</p> . unknown