M0015493: X-ray therapy in 1902: the patient on a couch and a shield round the tube - an unusual precaution at that time

Previous title, replaced October 2021: X-ray therapy in 1902.

Reproduction of a photograph published in Williams, Francis H: The Roentgen rays in medicine and surgery as an aid in diagnosis and as a therapeutic agent designed for the use of practitioners and students, New York : Macmillan, 1902

November 1956

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.