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Frederick Baetjer | |
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| Institutions | Johns Hopkins |
Frederick Henry Baetjer was an American physician.
After graduating from medical school, Baetjer was a resident physician at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where the residents took turns "looking after the X-ray room". Baetjer's curiosity was piqued by the experience, and he began making nearly annual trips to Europe to visit X-ray facilities, including the laboratories of Heinrich Albers-Schönberg in Hamburg and Max Immelmann of Berlin.[1]
Baetjer had one of his eyes surgically removed in 1908. Friends thought that Baetjer's eye problem might have been brought on by his X-ray work, but his physicians said that the cause was an accident he had in college.[2]
By 1925, Baetjer had undergone 52 finger amputations over 16 years.[3]
JHMI Portrait Collection bio - https://portraitcollection.jhmi.edu/portraits/baetjer-frederick-henry-1
References
[edit]- ^ Brown, Percy (October 1995). "American martyrs to radiology. Frederick Henry Baetjer (1874-1933). 1936". American Journal of Roentgenology. 165 (4): 991–994. doi:10.2214/ajr.165.4.7677007. ISSN 0361-803X.
- ^ "Scientist loses an eye; Dr. Frederick Baetjer, authority on X-rays, undergoes operation". The New York Times. June 3, 1908.
- ^ "Medicine: X-Ray filter". Time. April 13, 1925.
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