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Henry Snowden Ward (1865–1911) Biography with special reference to X-rays in 1896
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Abstract
Henry Snowden Ward was a professional photographer, Editor of The Photogram magazine, itinerant lecturer in England in 1896 on X-rays, and the author of the world’s first textbook on X-rays, Practical Radiography, which was first published in May 1896 and went into three editions with the later editions, 1898 and 1901, expanded and co-authored with Adolph Isenthal (d~1910), a manufacturer in London of electrical apparatus and X-ray apparatus. Ward was a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and a founding member of the Röntgen Society. As with most early demonstrators of X-rays imaging, Snowden Ward left the field once qualified physicians, surgeons, physicists and engineers became more involved and took over as the prime leaders in X-ray diagnosis and therapy. Snowden Ward went on to publish and lecture on Charles Dickens, Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and William Shakespeare. He died suddenly in December 1911 in New York whilst on a Dickens & Shakespeare lecture tour of the USA. Some of the illustrations from the three editions of Practical Radiography are included.
Abstract
Henry Snowden Ward was a professional photographer, Editor of The Photogram magazine, itinerant lecturer in England in 1896 on X-rays, and the author of the world’s first textbook on X-rays, Practical Radiography, which was first published in May 1896 and went into three editions with the later editions, 1898 and 1901, expanded and co-authored with Adolph Isenthal (d~1910), a manufacturer in London of electrical apparatus and X-ray apparatus. Ward was a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and a founding member of the Röntgen Society. As with most early demonstrators of X-rays imaging, Snowden Ward left the field once qualified physicians, surgeons, physicists and engineers became more involved and took over as the prime leaders in X-ray diagnosis and therapy. Snowden Ward went on to publish and lecture on Charles Dickens, Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and William Shakespeare. He died suddenly in December 1911 in New York whilst on a Dickens & Shakespeare lecture tour of the USA. Some of the illustrations from the three editions of Practical Radiography are included.
Keywords
photography, X-rays, radiography, fluoroscopy, Henry Snowden Ward, Adolph Isenthal, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, biological effects of X-rays on the skin, Wimshurst machine
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Henry Snowden Ward (1865–1911) Biography with special reference to X-rays in 1896
Journal
Nowotwory. Journal of Oncology
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Other materials agreed with the Editors
Pages
212-219
Published online
2019-01-16
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DOI
10.5603/NJO.2018.0034
Bibliographic record
Nowotwory. Journal of Oncology 2018;68(4):212-219.
Keywords
photography
X-rays
radiography
fluoroscopy
Henry Snowden Ward
Adolph Isenthal
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
biological effects of X-rays on the skin
Wimshurst machine
Authors
Richard F. Mould