ww1 xrays '1895

Question 1

1895

Answer 1

wilhelm rontgen was experimenting with rays in a test tube covered with black paper when he realised that the rays actually passed through the paper

realised that rays could go through flesh but not bone

Question 2

what could the xrays be used to find?

Answer 2

objects lodged in flesh and bone like:
- bullets
- shrapnel
without causing harmful and invasive exploratory surgery

Question 3

what happened with their use by the end of ww1?

Answer 3

the mobile x-ray machines and static ones at ccs were proving their worth as they were being consistently used

Question 4

name their problems and solutions:

Answer 4

took several minutes to take = soldiers would be sedated with the medicine available

they needed heating up and cooling down for atleast 1 hour = increasing number of machines meant that 3 could be used in rotation to allow cooling

only detected hard objects (wood splinters and dirty cloth bits might cause infection) = doctors carefully searched for these fragments whilst operating