Photograph

First (U.K) clinical x-ray photograph. Two contact-sized photos of a thumb containing needle roughly mounted on one piece of card (remains of an old invitation).
Believed to be the first clinical X-ray taken in the UK. Date on back reads 'February 1896'. Two X-ray photographs pasted onto a calling card (rsvp visible). On the back, in Collie's writing: "The first X ray photograph taken in Great Britain for surgical purposes. Feb. 1896. The photograph is that of the finger of a patient in University College Hospital who said she had a broken needle in her thumb. Taken by an X ray tube made by J.N. Collie" On 19th Feb 1896 a boy's broken arm was x-rayed at Dartmouth Medical School, U.S.A. - this is believed to be the world's first clinical x-ray. See 'The First Clinical X-Ray made in America - 100 years' by Peter Spiegel, American Journal of Roentgenology, 1995, Vol 164, pg 241 - 243. A pdf copy is in the Chemistry Folder on S-Drive (ajr.161.1). Asbestos Inspection - Non-Asbestos

Collie, J Norman (Maker) (1859-09-10 - 1942-11-01)

circa 1896-02-01 to circa 1896-02-28

- Davies, A.G., UCL Chemistry Department 1828-1974, pg.66;. Fig 5.9, pg.66;

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