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...reverently Dr. Brown gathered the sad records of his colleagues and contemporaries into a book, American Martyrs to Science Through the Roentgen Rays. He quoted one of his subjects: "For a description of the pain and suffering ... no language, sacred or profane, is adequate...
...first X-ray pictures ever made had nothing to do with pure science. In 1895, German Physicist Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen made an X-ray photograph of his wife's hand, to make her appreciate the work he was doing and forgive him for having slighted her cooking...
Hundreds of dapper, middle-aged men buzzed around a spooky, blacked-out picture gallery in Cincinnati's Netherland Plaza Hotel. They were X-ray specialists, members of the American Roentgen Ray Society, who met last week to exhibit their art, discuss their progress...
...Holmes was president of the Roentgen Ray Society, and he has been a director of the Society for the Control of Cancer since 1936, and a member of the National Research Council since 1927. He is consulting Roentgenologist for the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary...
...mouse cancer known as sarcoma 180. Then they injected into the tumors small amounts of sterile, distilled water several times a day for three to six days. Results: small doses of X-rays, when followed by water, produced an unusually strong effect. Large doses of over 1,000 Roentgen units, when followed by water, completely destroyed all the mouse tumors. When the scientists omitted the X-rays, tried only water, the cancer cells did not die-only the combination worked...