X-rays simply explained : a handbook on Röntgen rays in theory and practice / by R.P. Howgrave-Graham.

Date:
[1904?]
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Credit: X-rays simply explained : a handbook on Röntgen rays in theory and practice / by R.P. Howgrave-Graham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    W'liili rosiMircli ami cxpiTiiMcni with lidiUj^n'ii rays lia\i' iUHH^rcssi'd there htiH been coiiteiiiporaneous tlevelni>iiKMil uf the severely ])rac'ti(al side in tlie wards of ^r(»at lionpitals a)id in llic wniksliops of the tiiiiis which snjijily tln'in wilh apj»aratns, lait unrorlnnalely even the elementary theory (»f the .snliject has somctinies been inadecpiate. There ai(» still tbnse wlio ba\e imt learnt the lesson whieli danies iMill iinjjressed upon his son, tluit there is no antagonism between theory and praetice, but that success in the latter must depend on accuracy in the former. The truly practical man feels with his mind as with his fing-(M-s, and can not only ]>r()duc(^ a re(iuired result willi ease and certainty, but knows the principles involved, and, perceiving the ori^nn of a ditliculty, has the i)atience to sur- luniiiit it. He is the scientific clairvoyant—a Wdid wbicli may be apjilied here, in s]»ite of its present dco-raded use, to such pioneers in the world of knowlcdire as Faraday, Sir W. Crookes, and Sir .1. fJ. Thomson—the clear-seers, whose minds often predicted the results which they or others afterwards obtained experimentally—Through faith obtained promises, liaving seen them and greeted them from afai/'