ANONYMOUS possibly TOUSSAINT BARTHÉLÉMY (1850-1906) and PAUL OUDIN (1851-1923)

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ANONYMOUS possibly TOUSSAINT BARTHÉLÉMY (1850-1906) and PAUL OUDIN (1851-1923)

Experimental X-ray photographs of malformed hands, a shoe, a rat and a purse, 1896-97

Album of fifteen gelatin silver prints, 4 3/8 x 3¼ in. or 6¾ x 4 3/8 in., two mounted on card each with ink inscriptions 1e. expérience de rayon x bobine donnant 9 c.m. étincelle tube de Crookes ancien, distance 12 c.m. pose 20 minutes, 1896 [1st trial of X-ray. Roll giving a 9 c.m. spark. "Crookes ancien" tube, distance 12 c.m., duration 20 minutes. 1896] and Rayons X 1897. Bobine de 10 c.m. tube de Arth et Zenholen, distance 12 c.m. pose 4 minutes [X-rays 1897. Roll of 10 c.m. "Arth and Zenholer" tube, distance 12 c.m., duration 4 minutes], full morocco, sm. oblong 8vo.

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In France, the doctors T. Barthélémy and P. Oudin are credited with having taken the first medical X-ray. Born in Lorraine, Barthélémy learnt of the discovery of X-rays by Röntgen from a German journal. He repeated the same experiment with Oudin with better results. The first medical X-rays were presented, under their names, by Henri Poincaré on the 20th January 1896 at the Académie des Sciences at a lecture titled "A Photograph of the bones of a hand taken by means of an X-ray" discovered by Professor Röntgen.

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