Étienne Destot

Étienne Destot (1 March 1864 – 3 December 1918) was a French radiologist and anatomist who was a native of Dijon.

In February 1896, less than two months after Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845–1923) announced his discovery of the X-ray, Destot was making radiographs of patients at the Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon.

He made thousands of radiographies, many of which were of patients supplied by surgeon Louis Léopold Ollier (1830–1900).

[2] In 1913, due to severe radiation damage to his hands, he was forced to relinquish his position as radiologist.

His name is included on the Monument to the X-ray and Radium Martyrs of All Nations erected in Hamburg, Germany in 1936.

The space in the wrist bounded by the hamate, capitate, triquetral and lunate bones. This place is referred to as a place where the nails of Jesus Christ crucifixion pierced his wrist. [ 1 ]