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THE discovery of X-rays in 1895 was justly hailed as one of the greatest scientific marvels of any age. Medical men eagerly grasped the possibilities of these rays, which enabled them to see the internal organs of their patients actually at work, hitherto impossible even to surgeons, who in the course of their operations had the organs exposed to view, but only under conditions of anæsthesia.
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JORDAN, A. X-Rays in Medical Science. Nature 104, 237–239 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/104237a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/104237a0