World Radiography Day

Private Home Health Care is trying to imagine a world without x-rays.  Can you imagine that too?  We know that there are few of you who have never had this easy test. 

On this day we are thinking about a physicist from Wurzburg Germany who was the first person to accidentally learn about the process in a lab.

In 1895, Wilhelm Rontgen’s testing of cathode rays through glass led him to notice a glow coming from a chemically treated screen.  He coined the term X-ray because they were unknown.

Now of course his discovery took a lot of testing and studying before it was actually used on humans.  It wasn’t until 1897 that this important procedure was used in the Balkan War.  

Curiously, Mr. Rontgen received the first Nobel Prize for Physics in 1901 but he never created a patent.

Today, radiography is used in dental offices, doctor’s offices, urgent care and hospitals.  You and I know how beneficial an x-ray can be to a diagnosis.

We have learned with time that there are risks to too many x-rays so you need to be aware of having too many at one time.  Along with radiography there are other ways to make medical diagnoses.  

On this day we recognize the radiographers and radiologists who use this painless and quick process to help us.  We are grateful to Wilhelm Rontgen for his timely discovery.