x rays

• 1. rays were discovered accidentally by German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen


  1895
• Radiology departments opened in some British hospitals


  1896
• Radiology departments


  Doctors were now able to look inside the body without having to cut the patient open
• Early x-rays

  • People didn't fully understand the risks of radiation
• • Patients could suffer burns or hair loss because of the high levels of radiation
• • Roentgen developed a table-top machine, but the glass tube used was fragile and easily broken
• • An x-ray of a hand on the table-top machine took about 90 minutes
• • Larger x-ray machines were difficult to move around