1895 RÖNTGEN, Wilhelm Conrad (1845 – 1923)
Ueber eine neue Art von Strahlen. (Vorläufige Mittheilung.); Eine neue Art von Strahlen. II. Mittheilung.
The discovery of x rays, which Kölliker later renamed “Roentgen rays”; the foundation stone of the science of roentgenology. English translation in Nature, (February,) 1896, 53, 274 and 377. See also Röntgen’s third p…
GMN 2683 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4359
1896 JONES, Sir Robert (1858 – 1933); LODGE, Sir Oliver Joseph (1851 – 1940)
The discovery of a bullet lost in the wrist by means of the Roentgen rays.
This was probably the first published report of the clinical use of x rays (February 22).
GMN 2684 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4167
1896 KEEN, William Williams (1837 – 1932)
The clinical application of the roentgen rays in surgical diagnosis.
First clinical application in America, published in March, 1896.
GMN 2684.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4172
1896 BECQUEREL, Antoine Henri (1852 – 1908)
Sur les radiations émises par phosphorescence.
The discovery of radioactivity – research stimulated by Roentgen’s discovery of x rays. In 1903 Becquerel received half of the Nobel Prize in Physics 1903 "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered …
GMN 2001 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4181
1896 MORTON, William James (1846 – 1920)
The x-ray and its application to dentistry.
First dental radiography in America.
GMN 2684.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4186
1896 PUPIN, Mihajlo Idvorski (Michael I. Pupin) (1858 – 1935)
A few remarks on experiments with Roentgen rays.
Introduction of the intensifying screen.
GMN 2685 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4190
1896 THOMSON, Elihu (1853 – 1937)
Stereoscopic Roentgen pictures.
Invention of the Roentgen stereoscope.
GMN 2686 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4204
1896 EDER, Josef Maria (1855 – 1944); VALENTA, Eduard (1857 – 1937)
Versuche über Photographie mittelst der Röntgen’schen Strahlen.
"Eder was the director of an institute for graphic processes and the author of an early history of photography. With the photochemist Valenta, he produced a portfolio in January 1896, less than a month after Wilhelm C…
GMN 10607 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12800
1896 KÖNIG, Carl Georg Walter (1859 – 1936)
14 Photographien mit Röntgen-strahlen aufgenommen im physikaloschen Verein zu Frankfurt A. M.
This collection of x-ray photographs published within a few months of Röntgen's discovery includes applications in archaeology and anthropology (x-rays of mummies) and forensic medicine (for the investigation of gunsh…
GMN 10608 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12801
1897 FREUND, Leopold (1868 – 1944)
Demonstration eines mit Röntgenstrahlen behandelten Falles von Naevus pigmentosus pilosus.
First use of x rays for deep irradiation therapy.
GMN 2002 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1909
1897 BÉCLÈRE, Antoine Louis Gustave (1856 – 1939); OUDIN, Paul Marie (1851 – 1923); BARTHÉLEMY, Toussaint (1850 – 1906)
Application de la méthode Roentgen à l'examen d'un anéurisme de la crosse aortique. Présentation du malade et de la preuve radiographique.
With the help of Oudin and Barthélemy Béclère established the first laboratory of radiology in Paris. This was among the first applications of x-rays for the diagnosis of aortic disease, and also one of the first pape…
GMN 12218 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14429
1898 CANNON, Walter Bradford (1871 – 1945)
The movements of the stomach studied by means of the Roentgen rays.
Cannon introduced the bismuth meal. He showed that bismuth, opaque to x rays, could be of great use in conjunction with roentgenology in the investigation of the digestive tract. See No. 1029.
GMN 2687.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4003
1900 BORDEN, William Cline (1858 – 1934)
The use of the Röntgen ray by the Medical Department of the United States Army in the war with Spain (1898).
The Spanish-American War was the first war in which X rays were used for diagnostic purposes. This is the first report on the application of X rays in military medicine. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at …
GMN 2687.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4247
1901 WILLIAMS, Francis Henry (1852 – 1936)
The Roentgen rays in medicine and surgery.
Because of rapid developments in this field Williams put this book through three editions, in 1901, 1902, and 1903. Digital facsimile of the 1901 first edition from the Wellcome Collection at this link, of the 1902 se…
GMN 2687.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4249
1901 DANLOS, Henri-Alexandre (1844 – 1912); BLOCH, P
Note sur le traitement du lupus érythémateux par des applications de radium.
First application of radium in the treatment of lupus.
GMN 4003 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5090
1902 FRIEBEN, Ernst August Franz Albert (1875 – )
Cancroid des rechten Handrückens.
Frieben reported the carcinogenic effect of x-rays in man.
GMN 2625.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3181
1902 HOLZKNECHT, Guido (1872 – 1931)
Eine neue, einfache Dosirungsmethode in der Radiotherapie (das Chromoradiometer).
Holzknecht did important work on x-ray dosimetry.
GMN 2688 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4256
1903 ALBERS-SCHÖNBERG, Heinrich Ernst (1865 – 1921)
Die Röntgen-Technik.
Albers-Schönberg invented the compression diaphragm, the function of which is to intensify the object by cutting out secondary rays.
GMN 2689 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4260
1903 WITTEK, Arnold (1871 – 1956)
Zur Technik der Röntgenphotographie (Lendenwirbel, Blasensteine).
Cystography. Wittek filled the bladder with air and was able to demonstrate vertebrae and urinary calculus.
GMN 4191.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6125
1904 SABOURAUD, Raymond Jacques Adrien (1864 – 1938)
Surla radiothérapie des teignes.
Sabouraud’s method of radiological treatment of ringworm.
GMN 4004 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5099
1906 VOELCKER, Friedrich (1872 – 1955); LICHTENBERG, Alexander von (1880 – 1949)
Pyelographie (Roentgenographie des Nierenbeckens nach Kollargolfüllung).
Introduction of pyelography.
GMN 4231 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5068
1911 CLUNET, Pierre Édouard Jean (1878 – 1917)
Le cancer expérimental.
Experimental production of malignant tumors by means of x rays.
GMN 2637.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3240
1911 –1912 GOCHT, Hermann (1869 – 1938)
Die Röntgen-Literatur. 2 vols.
GMN 2701 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4345
1912 SCHÜLLER, Artur (1874 – 1958)
Röntgen-diagnostik der Erkrankungen des Kopfes.
A fundamental work on radiological examination of the skull. English translation, St. Louis, 1918.
GMN 4596.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8925
1913 –1914 BUCKY, Gustav Peter (1880 – 1963)
A grafting-diaphragm to cut off secondary rays from the object.
Bucky devised a diaphragm for roentgenography which, by preventing the secondary rays from reaching the plate, secured better contrast and definition.
GMN 2691 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4273
1913 –1914 COOLIDGE, William David (1873 – 1975)
A powerful Roentgen ray tube with a pure electron discharge.
Coolidge invented the high vacuum tube, capable of kilovoltage energies.
GMN 2692 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4280
1913 SALOMON, Albert (1883 – 1976)
Beiträge zur Pathologie und Klinik der Mammacarcinome.
In a study of 3,000 mastectomies, Salomon compared X-rays of the beasts (mammograms) to the actual removed tissue, paying close attention to microcalcifications. In doing so he was able to establish the difference in …
GMN 13264 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15530
1915 HEKTOEN, Ludvig (1863 – 1951)
The influence of the x-ray on the production of antibodies.
Proof that x rays suppress the antibody response.
GMN 2569 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3697
1916 POTTER, Hollis Elmer (1880 – 1964)
Diaphragming Roentgen rays. Studies and experiments.
Moving grid. "Bucky-Potter grid" invented by Gustav Bucky and improved by radiologist Hollis E. Potter.
GMN 2692.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4283
1918 CAMERON, Don Franklin (1889 – )
Aqueous solutions of potassium and sodium iodids as opaque mediums in roentgenography.
GMN 2692.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4286
1921 FORESTIER, Jacques (1890 – 1978); SICARD, Jean Athanase (1872 – 1929)
Méthode radiographique d’exploration de la cavité épidurale par la lipiodol.
Positive contrast myelography with iodized oil (lipiodol). This paper records the first use of lipiodol in radiology.
GMN 2693 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/556
1921 CARELLI, Humberto Horacio (1882 – 1962); SORDELLI, Alfredo (1891 – 1967)
Un nuevo procedimiento para explorar al riñón.
Perirenal insufflation of oxygen, for the roentgenological study of the kidney.
GMN 4241 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5116
1921 CURIE, Marie Sklodowska (1867 – 1934)
La radiologie et la guerre.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 9580 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11767
1924 CURIE, Pierre (1859 – 1906); CURIE, Marie Sklodowska (1867 – 1934)
Pierre Curie par Marie Curie.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link. Through a quirk in publishing history the English translation appeared in 1923 prior to the French edition as Pierre Curie by Marie Curie, Translated by Charlotte and V…
GMN 12701 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14946
1927 REGAUD, Claudius (1870 – 1940); FERROUX, R.
Discordance des effets des rayons X, d’une part dans la peau, d’autre part dans le testicule, par le fractionnement de la dose: diminution de l’efficacité dans la peau, maintien de l’efficacité dans le testicule.
Dose fractionation.
GMN 2008 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1935
1927 HOLZKNECHT, Guido (1872 – 1931)
Einstellung der Röntgenologie.
GMN 2694 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4293
1929 OKA, Mitsutomo
Eine neue Methode zur röntgenologischen Darstellung der Milz.
Thorium dioxide (“thorotrast”) first used in radiological diagnosis.
GMN 2695 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4297
1931 STUMPF, Pleikart (1888 – 1965)
Archiv und Atlas der normalen und pathologischen Anatomie in typischen Röntgenbildern. Das röntgenographische Bewegungsbild und seine Anwendung (Flachenkymographie und Kymoskopie).
Introduction of roentgen kymography.
GMN 2696 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4367
1931 BREUER, Bela
Über ein neues Röntgensymptom der Gallensteinkrankheit.
Star-shaped radiolucencies caused by gas in gallstones.
GMN 3658 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4775
1931 BROWN, Percy (1875 – 1950)
American martyrs to science through the Roentgen rays.
GMN 7788 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9960
1933 BARTELINK, D. L.
Röntgenschnitte.
Tomography first described.
GMN 2698 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4312
1933 GLASSER, Otto (1895 – 1964)
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen and the early history of the Roentgen rays.
The standard biography of Röntgen with a detailed history of the discovery of X-rays and the early period of roentgenology. Includes a bibliography of 1044 items on the subject published during the first year after Rö…
GMN 2702 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4386
1935 GROSSMANN, Gustav (Gusztáv) (1878 – 1957)
Tomographie.
Grossmann's tomograph was able to image a single slice through the body. He was influential in establishing the word "tomographie" in its radiological context.
GMN 2699 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4316
1938 CURIE, Marie Sklodowska (1867 – 1934); CURIE LOUISSE, Ève Denise (1904 – 2007)
Madam Curie par Ève Curie.
Ève Curie was Marie Curie's younger daughter. This biography was first published simultaneously in many languages. It was translated into English by Vincent Sheean and published in London by William Heinemann Ltd., 19…
GMN 12702 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14947
1939 WATSON, William (1895 – 1965)
Differential radiography.
Watson first described axial transverse tomography.
GMN 2700 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4320
1940 LAWRENCE, John Hundale (1904 – 1991)
Nuclear physics and therapy: preliminary report on a new method for the treatment of leukemia and polycythemia.
Radio-phosphorus in treatment of leukemia.
GMN 3099 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3795
1948 MOORE, George Eugene (1920 – 2008)
The clinical use of fluorescein in neurosurgery; localization of brain tumors.
Tumor localization by radio-isotopes. With W. T. Peyton, L. A. French, and W. W. Walker. Preliminary reports in Science, 1947, 106, 130-31; 1948, 107, 569-71.
GMN 4615.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/604
1949 WAKIM, Khalil Georges (1907 – 1985); KRUSEN, Frank Hammond (1898 – 1973); ET AL
Therapeutic possibilities of microwaves.
Introduction of microwave radiation therapy. With J. F. Herrick, G. M. Martin.
GMN 2010.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1956
1952 KINMONTH, John Bernard (1916 – 1982)
Lymphangiography in man. A method of outlining lymphatic trunks at operation.
Introduction of lymphangiography.
GMN 2700.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4331
1954 EVANS, John Arthur (1909 – ); ET AL
Nephrotomography. A preliminary report.
With W. Dubilier and J. C. Monteith.
GMN 4256.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5187
