02.04.07
X-ray Damage Revisited
The pictures below are not pleasant, so don’t look if you’re easily disgusted. I had noticed that the pictures I included of x-ray damage to hands on my x-ray series did not appear on all browsers. Thus I’ve copied a couple pages from A Century of X-Rays and Radioactivity in Medicine by Richard R. Mould, which are of pictures of progressive x-ray damage to the hands of an early x-ray engineer. These pictures are much better anyway of another engineer’s hands. Incidentally, I found Mould’s book very good and have also checked out his book on Chernobyl.
The caption included on the pages is sufficient explanation of each picture, so I’ve attached that as well.
Disgusting pictures, I know. . . but conditions like these were endured by early x-ray technicians before the dangers of x-ray were discovered, a fact I don’t think many people know about. I know I didn’t. But now that I know, I don’t plan on getting anymore x-rays. Amazing what kind of damage can happen to our bodies and we not even feel it occuring, until it’s too late.
Marlakins
