Summary
Digital image reproduced form a half-plate glass negative of the first x-ray equipment at Melbourne Hospital, circa 1897. Dr. Frederick John Clendinnen, pioneering Melbourne radiologist, and first radiologist at Melbourne Hospital, is operating the equipment, observed by a nurse and other doctors.
Description of Content
Dr Frederick J. Clendinnen operating Melbourne's Hospital's first x-ray equipment. Two other doctors and a nurse observe him using the apparatus, apparently on a male patient's arm or hand.
Physical Description
Digital black and white image
Significance
Dr Frederick J. Clendinnen established the first x-ray equipment at Melbourne Hospital in Lonsdale Street, Melbourne in 1896, not long after Wilhelm Roentgen had first demonstrated x-rays in Germany in late 1895. This image depicts the first equipment at Melbourne Hospital, the major teaching and research hospital in Melbourne.
Frederick John Clendinnen (1860-1913) was a pioneering radiologist in Melbourne. He began taking x-rays in 1896, shortly after Wilhelm Roentgen's discovery of x-rays in 1895. Clendinnen established a laboratory at the back of his home and medical practice in Williams Road, Hawksburn, In 1896 he became the first radiologist at Melbourne Hospital.
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Acquisition Information
Donation from John Benson, 16 Jul 2011
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Organisation Depicted
Melbourne Hospital, Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, circa 1897
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Person Depicted
Dr Frederick John Clendinnen, Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, circa 1897
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Digital file, Black & White
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Keywords
Hospitals, Radiographic Equipment, Radiography, X-Ray Equipment, X-Ray Tubes