X-ray machine used by the physiologist Walter Bradford Cannon to investigate the mechanical process of digestion, 1896/1898. Colour photograph.

1900-1999

1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 17.7 x 12.6 cm

Photograph of Dr. Walter B. Cannon's original x-ray machine

With note which reads: "Walter Bradford Cannon - American physiologist (1871 - 1945); photograph - see Isis, nos. 105 + 106, vol. xxxvi, prs. 3 + 4", i.e. referring to George Sarton's review of Cannon's book The way of an investigator, Isis, 1945-1946, vol, XXXVI, parts 3 &4, no. 105-106, pp. 259-260

Wellcome Collection 577232i