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1901 · 19237 — New York: Macmillan 1901. FIRST EDITION. With nearly 400 text illustrations. Contemporary cloth boards; new endpapers. An excellent copy. First edition of one of the first major textbooks on use of X-rays. As we all know X-rays were first discovered on November 8 1895 by Wilhelm Röntgen 1845–1923 who received the first Nobel prize in physics in 1901. The medical potential of X-rays was clear and by early February 1896 literature on the subject began to be published. In America three different institutions made claim to the first documented use of X-rays for medical purposes: Dartmouth where two faculty brothers Gilman and Edwin Frost a physician and a physicist respectively took an X-ray of a local boy with a broken arm. Edwin mentioned this case in a February 14 article in the journal Science the first known published American reference to medical X-rays; New York surgeon William Tillinghast Bull brought in a case of a person shot in the hand to Columbia scientist Michael Pupin; and in Boston physician Francis Henry Williams who was both an MIT grad in chemistry and a Harvard Medical School–trained physician asked MIT physics professors Ralph R. Lawrence and Charles L. Norton to take X-rays of patients. Though unsigned some attribute a February 20 article in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal to him which provides the first published X-ray in the United States of a pathological condition. <br /> <br /> The American Roentgen Ray Society was founded in 1900 and became a forum for working out some of the safety concerns about X-rays. By 1901 Williams 1852-1936 had oriented his own practice completely to radiology as shown by this magisterial book which was reprinted in three editions.<br /> <br /> See Theerman Paul Through Science: The Rise of the X-Ray posted on November 7 2014 by nyamhistorymed. Macmillan unknown