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By 1900, only 5 years after its invention, the use of the X-ray machine was widely described as being essential for clinical care, especially for making a diagnosis of foreign bodies and fractures (8).
- Abstract
- X-Rays in The Press During The Gas Tube Era
- Physicians' and Patients' Expectations
- The Experience of The Clinical X-Ray in The Gas Tube Era
- Domestication of X-Ray Machines and The Souring of Public Opinion
- Conclusion
- Funding
In his breezy and popularizing memoir These Mysterious Rays, radiologist Alan Hart describes what a typical patient might experience during a visit to his modern x-ray therapy clinic. At the end of the treatment, the patient “has heard nothing, felt nothing. In fact, a good many of our patients cat nap during their treatments. Most city bedrooms ar...
In order to understand how the physical experience of being x-rayed might be perceived by patients in the gas tube era, we must first consider the informational landscape that they inhabited with respect to the rays. As with any consideration of the American public writ large, it is useless to speak blithely about what was “known,” since that might...
From the moment of their discovery, x-rays were trivially easy to generate with a current source and a Crookes tube, both of which were readily available. Detailed instructions to make a simple apparatus were available in books like Edward Trevert's Something About the X-Rays for Everyone published in 1896. Homemade generators were occasionally pre...
Whatever notions patients might have brought into the examination room, the experience of coming physically into contact with the x-rays was dramatic in its own right. Direct testimony from patients about what transpired in the x-ray room is all but nonexistent. Entrepreneurial physicians who had invested perhaps a year's profits in a suite of tube...
Kassabian also prophesied that the rapid pace of technological and methodological refinement would shortly make burns a less inevitable consequence of therapeutic irradiation.82 This reflects not only the prevalent belief of physicians and patients alike in the always-imminent breakthrough in radiotherapy, but also a certain weary frustration with ...
In 1917, it seemed to Albert Soiland that something was changing. “The patient himself now frequently seeks the x-ray, irrespective of medical counsel, and it is quite refreshing to note how intelligent co-operation from an awakened public is gradually replacing old time ignorance and prejudice,” he reported.103 By then, the taming of x-ray technol...
This work was supported by the Department of History of Mississippi State University, the National Science Foundation (award number 0646688), and the Department of the History of Science of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Matthew Lavine
- 2012
The first x-ray machines were large, loud, sparking, smelly, and ostentatious devices, prone to mishap and injury even when fully under the control of the physicians who, in droves, invested money and prestige in them.
- Matthew Lavine
- 2012
In the 1920s, Hollis Potter invented and published a report of his moving grid, which revolutionized the X-raying of thick body parts; Paul Hodges' team added an important improvement by making it reciprocate.
Dec 28, 2016 · On this day in 1895, scientist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen published a paper called ‘On a New Kind of Rays.’. It was the first scientific paper to describe x-rays. Only six days earlier, he took the...
Sep 17, 2015 · News of his discovery spread worldwide, and within a year, doctors in Europe and the United States were using X-rays to locate gun shots, bone fractures, kidney stones and swallowed objects. Honors for his work poured in--including the first Nobel Prize in physics in 1901.
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Nov 7, 2014 · X-rays were discovered on November 8, 1895, by Wilhelm Röntgen (1845–1923) of the University of Würzburg. Quite serendipitously, he found that an active vacuum tube, shielded with a cardboard sleeve so that no visible or ultraviolet light could come out, caused fluorescence on a light- and UV-sensitive screen some distance away.
