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Article: MEDICINE GAINED A NEW WAY TO SEE
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 6, 1995
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It was the "cold fusion" sensation of its day -- a report that a
chance discovery on Nov. 8, 1895, had allowed an obscure German
physicist to see the unseeable, to peer through solid objects and,
for the first time, see the bones and internal organs of living
people.
And like the cold fusion claim six years ago of a process that
promised an inexhaustible source of cheap energy, the announcement of
the discovery of "X-rays" flashed around the world within days and
sent scientists everywhere racing into their labs to try to duplicate
the feat.
But unlike cold fusion, X-rays proved to be real.
Their discovery would introduce "the central theme of 20th century
medical technology -- the total ...