Walter James Dodd: A Biographical Sketch
by: Macy, John

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, slate gray boards. Paper label on spine, 64 pages with b&w plates. Walter James Dodd (1869 -1916) was a physician and one of the first radiologists in the United States. He was an early innovator in the use of X-rays in medicine, and suffered the consequences. He underwent over 50 surgical procedures to treat X-ray damage to his skin and had several appendages amputated. He ultimately died from X-ray induced cancer. Related clippings laid in. Clean copy.