Justice

Fine Turkish Original decorative bdg. 4to. (29 x 21 cm). In Ottoman script and Turkish (transcription). [xv], 176; 176 p., 21 unnumbered pages of plates, b/w ills. Röntgen su'â'âti ve tatbîkat-i tibbiye ve cerrâhiyesi.= Röntgen isinlari ve tip ve cerrahi uygulamalari. Edited by by Aytekin Besim.; Translated by Metin Ünsal; Bekir Koç. Includes facsimile of original illustrated and photographed manuscript and its transcription into modern Turkish. The discovery of X-rays (1895) by W.C. Roentgen has been a very important step of the modern civilization as a revolutionary technique for scientists all around the world and it has immediately been applied in medical field. Roentgen apparatus was first installed in Turkey by an intern doctor Esad Feyzi who took the first radiographies at the Imperial Medical School (Istanbul) in 1896. He made use of X-ray method for medical diagnosis later on when Turkish-Greek war broke out in 1897. Esad Feyzi worked in the clinical team led by professor Salih Effendi, MD, at the Yildiz Temporary Military Hospital in Istanbul to take radiographies of soldiers wounded at war in cooperation with the German Red Cross medical delegation. This event is most probably the earliest examples of the application of X-ray technique into military surgery all over the world. Researches have also proven that medical radiography technique was also applied in Greece by Greek and English doctors during that war. This war gave the opportunity to German and British medical teams to use X-ray as a radiographic imaging technique at the two confronting sides that was used in consequent wars in other parts of the world, later on.