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The evolution of the British Journal of Radiology

The Library, British Institute of Radiology, London

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1. Archives of Clinical Skiagraphy. By Sydney Rowland. A series of Collotype Illustrations with Descriptive Text, Illustrating Applications of the New Photography to Medicine and Surgery. London: The Rebman Publishing Company Ltd., 11 Adam Street, Strand.

Vol. 1, Part 1, May 1896, of the first issue of the first periodical publication devoted to radiology, consisting of 16 pages with six plates (in some issues P1. 5 was missing and is found in No. 2). Issued in dark green paper wrappers in a quarto format, the back cover of which contained advertisements for a variety of X-ray apparatus. Sydney Donville Rowland (1872–1917), the founder and first editor, had already made himself known by a series of communications on the new rays to the British Medical Journal. From his preface, dated April 2, 1896, we learn that: "The object of this publication is to put on record in permanent form some of the most striking applications of the New Photography to the needs of Medicine and Surgery."; "The progress of this new Art has been so rapid that, although Prof. Röntgen's discovery is only a thing of yesterday, it has already taken its place among the approved and accepted aids to diagnosis." Later on we read: "... the Art, which I venture to call Skiagraphy." Rowland's preface was followed by his introduction, which included a description of the cathode tube and an account of Röntgen's discovery.