BMJ 1995;311:688-689 (9 September)

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100 years of x rays

EDITOR,--I think it pertinent to mention the importance of the discovery of x rays in another area that has affected our medical lives, besides those areas mentioned by Daniel J Nolan.1 The news took some time to reach South Australia: all communication took six weeks by boat. The discovery was exciting for my grandfather William Bragg, who was professor of physics at Adelaide University, and figure 1 shows an x ray picture of his hand, dated 1 June 1896. The abnormality of the little finger is a result of a childhood injury. That same summer his son, William Laurence Bragg, who was a toddler, broke his left elbow. I believe that the x ray film of his arm, obtained in 1896, was the first film to be used to diagnose a fracture in Australia.


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 FIG 1--x Ray picture of Professor William Bragg's hand, obtained in 1896 (reproduced from reference 2 . . . [Full text of this article]


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100 years of x rays
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