February 17, 2008

X-Ray Mania


From the Radio Graphics Journal (a radiology journal), pictures of x-ray in advertising around the year 1895. It was the year that the x-ray was discovered. Soon after the discovery, the x-ray mania has began. People had all kind of "visions" of the x-ray in the future. These photographs show several examples from that mania. Such as X-Ray headaches pills... I don't think I'd want to "take" those pills, but this was the 19th century, so maybe I would have.. They'd probably illuminate my headaches (just kidding).

RadioGraphis Scenes of The Past
http://radiographics.rsnajnls.org/cgi/content/full/24/2/544


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