By Richard B. Gunderman
The invention of the x-ray in 1895 proved to be some of the most transformative breakthroughs within the heritage of technological know-how. It ushered in a brand new period in medication, permitting physicians and sufferers to look contained in the residing human physique, with no using a scalpel, to evaluate health and wellbeing and diagnose ailments. The x-ray unfolded the area of the very small, permitting us to figure out the constitution of the molecules of which we're made. It additionally published the genuine nature of the biggest and oldest items within the universe, together with the universe itself. this day it has spawned remarkable new imaging strategies, together with ultrasound, CT scanning, MR imaging, and nuclear drugs, that have spread out awesome new home windows at the constitution and serve as of the human physique. This e-book recounts the tales of the notable physicians and scientists who constructed those new imaging applied sciences. It tells the tales of genuine sufferers whose lives were touched, reworked, and in lots of instances stored through scientific imaging. And it shines new mild at the striking methods x-rays have reworked our view of ourselves and the area we inhabit. Richly illustrated with either ancient pictures and imaging reviews of actual sufferers, X-ray imaginative and prescient is a dinner party for the eyes in addition to the brain.
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This discovery eventually made it feasible to produce radioactive elements commercially. Marie Curie believed so strongly in the war effort that she donated to the cause the gold Nobel Prize medals that she and her husband had received. After the war, she embarked on extensive tours of the United States on two separate occasions to raise funds for research. Later she also became head of the Pasteur Institute. In 1934 she was diagnosed with aplastic anemia, a disorder in which the bone marrow stops producing blood cells, perhaps as a result of the extensive radiation exposures associated with her research.
The physician tried to pull the catheter from Forssmann’s arm. Forssmann fought him off, then ordered that an x-ray image be taken to prove that the catheter was in his heart. This radiograph confirmed that the catheter had traveled up the arm, into his chest, and down into the right side of his heart, just as Forssmann had predicted (Figure 2-15). Later Forssmann’s chief heard about the incident and asked to see the radiograph. As Forssmann walked to his office, he feared that he would be fired.
A small crowd of well-wishers greeted him, and he stood to wave. As he did so, a man named John Schrank stepped forward, raised his revolver, and fired a single shot into the president’s chest. Roosevelt fell soundlessly. The assailant was hustled away, and the president’s men checked his coat to see if he had been hit, finding a hole. Roosevelt explored the hole himself, and his hand soon emerged, bloody. The security men gave the order to drive to the hospital, but Roosevelt, to everyone’s disbelief, belayed the order and insisted on going first to the Auditorium.