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Hand of an X-ray operator, ~1900 (NSFW for being somewhat... unpleasant) (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3520298/

Exposures were made with the tube over his forehead, in front of his open mouth and behind his right ear. Levy sat through the exposures from 8 o'clock in the morning until 10 o'clock at night. Within 24 h his entire head was blistered, within a few days his head was an angry sore and his lips were badly swollen, cracked and bleeding. His right ear had doubled in size and the hair on his right side had entirely fallen out.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

[A x-ray operator] In his autobiography he maintained “my courage is my work. I treat patients who suffer more or are encumbered more than me, and so I go on. By helping others I help myself”. He went on to predict “I will die from the effects of early uncontrolled exposures to X-rays. And like many of the early pioneers, I too, will die a victim of natural science, a martyr to the X-rays.”

Also Roentgen (who discovered x-rays) refused to patent in order to expedite the benefit to humanity.