The value of X rays as a research method in medicine
The task of our science of medicine, to put it briefly, is to heal the suffering man; but this simple and briefly expressed task is extremely difficult, extremely responsible, and the possibility of its fulfillment is achievable only with the satisfaction of certain well-known requirements. Among these requirements, it is necessary to mention the desire to establish an understanding of the average normal human organism, a clear idea of normal individual deviations, the study of conditions that are conducive not only to the preservation, but also to the prosperity of these two types of life in the study of the wide sense of the causes of this organism; hence the need to establish an understanding of "diseases", their types, signs, reasons in each individual case ...