Re: Radiation history: Old picture

[Dave Derenzo <dave@UIC.EDU>]

Bjorn et.al.,



I am familiar with the picture.  It is a photo of William Morton 

(1845-1920) in about 1896.  I am sending Bjorn a copy to him directly.  See 

the following URL which contains many photos and a great deal of 

information about the history of radiology.



  http://www.xray.hmc.psu.edu/rci/centennial.html



Dave Derenzo, RSO

University of Illinois at Chicago



At 06:16 AM 12/13/01, you wrote:

>Dear Radsafers,

>

>I scanned a photocopy of a picture of X-rays in the "old days":

>http://www.geocities.com/bjorn_cedervall/Radtopics/accid_hist.html

>

>The book from which I photocopied this picture (in the seventies...) has 

>probably been thrown away (the whole radiobiology library at the Univ. of 

>Stockholm was scrapped a few years ago) - the corresponding dept. has 

>another orientation today...

>

>I wonder if anyone could point at the exact source (Brown 1936 - probably 

>an indirect reference) - and perhaps even better - help me with a better 

>picture - for the benefit of all interested Radsafers.

>

>The practice of holding the hand between the X-ray tube and a fluorescent 

>screen to see the bones probably caused a lot of early severe burns and 

>tragedies (see the book by Grubbe from the mid 1940:ies if you can find it 

>- horrible reading - he had 83 operations of his fingers, had no lips so 

>he would speak in public because few people could understand him and so 

>on). By that time (before say 1910) it took perhaps more than ten minutes 

>to warm up such a tube...

>

>Please comment or correct whatever if you can give more details for the 

>context. Any other "old pix" are also of interest - I can always ask the 

>publisher for a permission to post them and then again they could be 

>available for interested Radsafers.

>

>Bjorn Cedervall   bcradsafers@hotmail.com

>

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