It even inspired discussion among occultists.
She remarked, I have seen my death.
Two early workers taking X-rays of their hands with utter disregard for their safety.
One of the first person to discover this the hard way was Clarence Madison Dally.
The crystals would glow in the dark when the X-rays hit them.
Daily produced thousands of Crookes tubes and experimented with more than a thousand different compounds.
Edison had found his fluorescent lamp, but it had come at a cost.
Edison peers into a fluoroscope to observe the X-ray of Clarence Madison Dallys hand.
His face began to wrinkle and his left hand became swollen, sore and extremely painful.
Dally did not believe his conditions were either life threatening or permanent.
When his left hand started to give him trouble, he began using his right hand instead.
At night, he slept with both hands in water to alleviate the burning.
Like many researchers at the time, Dally assumed hed heal with rest and time away from the tubes.
After multiple attempts to cure, his left arm was amputated just below the shoulders.
Dally also lost four fingers of his right hand, leaving only the thumb.
Dallys sufferings left Edison with a morbid fear for X-rays.
Don’t talk to me about X-rays, he told a reporter from theNew York World.
“I am afraid of them.
I am afraid of radium and polonium too, and I don’t want to monkey with them.
Edison subsequently abandoned his research into fluorescent lamps.
He continued: No, I did not want to know anything more about X-rays.
