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The editorial of November 1941 considered the radiation protection issues involved in the manipulation of fractures and removal of foreign bodies under X-ray control (BJR 1944; 14(167): 343-343). There were many papers related to war injuries.
Wartime injuries. Eric Samuel, then in the Royal Army Medical Corps, wrote on the X-ray examination of air raid casualties in May 1941 (Samuel BJR 1941; 14 (161): 171-174). In December 1941 A Robinson Thompson from the Royal Navy wrote an interesting study of blast injuries to the chest (Thompson BJR 1941; 14 (168): 403-406).
Sep 6, 2011 · The noise and inconvenience of the previous generation of x-ray machines had much to do with the reason a patient going in for radiotherapy in 1943 might “expect the horrendous,” but not simply because the patients of the 1940s had bad memories of the machines of the 1910s.
- Matthew Lavine
- 2012
History of radiology. The history of radiology timeline covers the Origins of Radiology from 1895 when Wilhelm Rontgen first discovered the X-ray, through to the decades of the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.
Feb 18, 2020 · X-Ray’s Early Contribution to Medicine. A year after Roentgen’s discovery, in 1896, Dr. Edwin Frost and his brother, Dr. Gilman Frost, were the first to take a diagnostic X-ray. They X-rayed a boy named Eddie McCarthy to diagnose a broken wrist.
The years following the discovery of X-rays witnessed significant advancements in the technology, enhancing its efficacy, safety, and range of applications. These developments were pivotal in cementing the role of X-ray technology as an indispensable tool in medical diagnostics and beyond.
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Sep 17, 2015 · But not so long ago, a broken bone, a tumor, or a swallowed object could not be found without cutting a person open. Wilhelm Roentgen, Professor of Physics in Wurzburg, Bavaria, discovered X-rays in 1895—accidentally—while testing whether cathode rays could pass through glass.
