Our series examining an Image of the Week from the photographic files, by Kevin Warstadt, Digital Program Specialist.

Doctors performing an x-ray. ca. 1900

This Image of the Week comes from a folder titled “X-Ray Pictures.” The first ever x-ray imaging procedure was performed here at Dartmouth on February 3, 1896. The patient was local boy Eddie McCarthy who had broken his wrist ice skating. Dr. Gilman Frost and his brother, Edwin Frost, performed the procedure. See more images of x-rays in the Dartmouth photographic files.