The U of I History of Medicine Society invites you to hear:

Axel Ruprecht, D.D.S. speak on “The History of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology:  Then and Now,”

Thursday, Jan 27, 2011, 5:30-6:30.  Room 401, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences.

Professor Roentgen discovered the x ray in Nov. 1895.  The first radiology office was his physical laboratory at the Univ. of Wurzberg, Germany. His first patient was his wife who had a radiograph of her hand made.  Things changed rapidly.