[The discovery of X-rays and their introduction to Japan at the end of the 19th century].
The discovery of X-rays was first reported in Japan on February 29, 1896 by the TOKYO IJISHINPOU, a widely distributed medical journal, which translated Jastrowitz's presentation on the newly discovered X-rays at the meeting of the Berliner Gesellschaft für Innere Medizin on January 6, 1896. The most important early report on X-rays from Germany was that of H. Nagaoka, who had attended the festival of das 50 jährige Bestehen der Berliner Physikalischen Gesellschaft on January 4, 1896. The report with a roentgenograph of a human hand (not that of Mrs Roentgen) appeared in the TOUYOU GAKUGEI ZASSHI, issued on March 25, 1896. Physicists in a few institutes in Tokyo were said to have carried out successful roentgenography by the middle of March 1896. The first booklet containing a roentgenograph of a human hand taken by Japanese researchers was published on May 15, 1896.
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Tokyo Medical & Dental University, Japan.
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