MARTYR TO X-RAYS
Professor Charles Vaillant, pioneer Roentgen Ray experimenter, recently underwent his fourteenth surgical operation for X-ray dermatitis. The exact nature of the disease is still a mystery to medical science. The professor has successively lost his fingers, his hands, tne whole of one arm. and one-half of the-other .arm. Now the mysterious disease has spread to the body, and at the Hotel Dieu Professor Cuneo, the eminent surgeon, removed lesions from Professor Vaillant's stomach. The operation in itself was relatively simple. The professor underwent it with his characteristic good humour. He was expected to be out and about again in a few days' time, but the question is asked, for how long? .Professor Vaillant began to manipulate Roentgen's invention as far back as 1896, when modern means of protection against the effects of the rays were unknown.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 110, 5 November 1937, Page 16
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139MARTYR TO X-RAYS Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 110, 5 November 1937, Page 16
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