X-Ray Procedure Using a Fluoroscope

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Kim Martins
by Elmer Ellsworth Burns
published on 17 July 2024
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Photo of an early X-ray procedure using a fluoroscope screen, around 1910. No precautions were taken to minimise exposure since the dangers of X-rays were not known at the time.

Illustration from p. 233 of The Story of Great Inventions by Elmer Ellsworth Burns, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1910.

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