Walter James Dodd: A Biographical Sketch

Book Description

Boston: Houghton-Mifflin Company, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf wear (focused at head and heel), bottom corner bumped, tips through, front board shows soft crease at bottom corner, Dark teal paper covered cloth boards, in blind decorative elements, paper label at spine, black ink lettering, frontispiece, tissue guards. 8vo. 64pp. Illus. (b/w plates). A well-told biography of Dodd who, while at Massachusetts General Hospital, learned of Roentgen's discovery and became relatively obessed with it. In the course of developing x-ray devices for the hospital, he ended up with radiation poisoning leading to his death. A remarkable tale. A rather handsome copy of this increasingly uncommon volume.

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