Comparison of Medical, Surgical, and Radiological Conceptions in Relation to the Treatment of Disease
| Autor: | Hans Holfelder |
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| Rok vydání: | 1932 |
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| Zdroj: | The British Journal of Radiology. 5:39-56 |
| ISSN: | 1748-880X 0007-1285 |
| DOI: | 10.1259/0007-1285-5-49-39 |
| Popis: | I Wish to express my sincerest and respectful thanks to the British Institute of Radiology for conferring on me the great honour of asking me to deliver this year's Mackenzie Davidson Memorial Lecture. I feel very much indebted by this great honour and kind invitation. Radiology is but a relatively new province in medicine. Representatives of the old and classical medical branches adopted the use of those new discovered rays to their own lines, after Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen and Madame and Pierre Curie made their wonderful discoveries. Surgeons and physicians laid the foundation of that new branch, Radiology, which includes Roentgenology as well as Curietherapy. If we raise the question, whether or not radiology has the right to exist as an autonomous medical province, not only in research, but also in practice and in teaching, we radiologists, after all, should not forget that, particularly, the Rontgen rays have to-day gained such pre-eminent importance that hardly any medical speciality can fail to call ... |
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