The Center for the History of Medicine is pleased to announce the digitization of E. A. Codman's Album of stereoscopic and plain X-rays : radiographs, 1896. This album represents some of the earliest X-rays taken at Harvard Medical School, only a year after the first Radiograph was taken by Wilhelm Röntgen. Codman x-rayed cadavers to study their joints, as well as refine the x-ray technique, as one of the first radiographers in America. In 1898, he published a paper, "Experiments on the application of the Roentgen rays to the study of anatomy" in The Journal of Experimental Medicine, based on his work including images from the album, by then deposited at the Warren Anatomical Museum. The album was also displayed at the opening of Countway Library, sixty years ago, in 1965.
The digitization of the album was performed by Harvard's Imaging Services unit.