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Hello, if you could just slip off your top and stand up straight, I'll begin.

I see bones

Gissards and bones and a few kidney stones among the lovely bones.

A deliciously grotesque introduction to the subject of X-rays from Alan Sherman.

But as I've discovered from reading a new book, simply called X-ray, this is far from the only way in

which this well-known medical procedure can generate a veritable universe of

different meanings. The author of X-ray Veritable Universe of Different Meanings.

The author of X-ray is Nicole Lovdell, assistant professor of English at Northwestern State

University of Louisiana, and she now joins me. Now Nicole, few scientific discoveries

have had such an impact as Wilhelm Conrad Runtkin's discovery of x-rays back I think it was 1895 because within a year

of his discovery their application to diagnosis and therapy had become really

almost an established part of the medical profession.

Give me a brief account of this speedy progress after he showed an x-ray of a human

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