Identifier: americanxrayjour9101unse (find matches)
Title: American X-ray journal
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Subjects: X-Rays Radiography
Publisher: St. Louis : American X-Ray Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
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ais expected to spread these truthsthrough the medium of its members.But let us continuously look for light—more light, remembering again that it isthe builder that constructs—not thewrecker. Our mission is onward, whilethe destroyers sleep by the wayside.We follow beacon lights in science andforget maledictions. We are reachingout, not blindly into the siftings, but in-to clearer domains, where the flight ofman aspires. We reach for the stars,and our ambition is not fulfilled. Themost distant twinklings allure us, and,solving the wonders there, we plungeinto the abyss beyond, seeking the un-known. If we are a fraternity, then inunion there is strength. Each memberis strengthened by the strength of thewhole. Then we can better seek therealm of diagnostic medicine—the phy-sicians goal. So we are seeking thewaywardness of mans anatomy, not somuch his mentality. We are lookingfor the cause of mans suffering, quitecontent with the remedies at hand. We 966 THE AMERICAN X-RAY JOURNAL.
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These cuts show the rooms in which the Roentgen Society of the United States met infirst annual meeting. Grand Central Palace, New York City, December 13 and 14, 1900.One room was well filled with exhibits and the other seated for 230 members andspectators. THE AMERICAN X-RAY JOURNAL. 967 are already proud of our achievements,of its revolutionizing influences, of theconquering x-rays. Conscious, how-ever, of this reward, we behold a newvista and turn from the proud sense ofvictories won to the labors that awaitus. Like receding from the small endof the funnel, the working plane ex-pands. We take up the taper of accu-mulated past and with the searchingli°ht seek untrodden paths. Then, ap-proaching the consummation of our am-bition, we can proclaim-- With visions clearer than een tears could makeThe eyes, whose limit was the violet rays,We now may see, and things that lie beyond—Lifes mysteries long screened are ours today. The following is a running clippingfrom an editorial in the

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