AN X-RAYS VICTIM.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 62, 10 September 1910, Page 14

AN X-RAYS VICTIM.

"The death took place in London on 9th July of Mr. Harry W. Cox, at the age of forty-six, a victim to his researches in connection with Rontgen Rays, of which he was one of the early pioneers," says the Morning Post. "Some twelve years ago he accidentally placed the tube of the apparatus near his face, with the result that he contracted dermatitis. Despite jiis terrible affliction, Mr. Cox did not relax his efforts in the work of investigation. He threw himself, on the contrary, eagerly into the business of perfecting the apparatus, and took out some eighty patents, one being a valuable invention which locates not only the position of a bullet, but also its depth. This apparatus was of. the greatest service during the South African war. "Mr. Harry Cox is not the only victim among those who were pioneers irRontgen Ray investigation. Both Dr. Hall Edwards and Mr." Cox undertook experimental work immediately after the X-rays had been discovered, at a time when no one dreamt of the terrible effects which over-exposure to tho rays produces. At the time it had never been suggested that the 'invisible' emanations from Rontgen's exhausted tube could possibly have any effect on the human economy."