John Hall-Edwards

Hall-Edwards was the son of John Edwards, and was born on Moseley Road, Kings Norton near Birmingham.

He then studied medicine, apprenticing under Prof Richard Hill Norris at Queens College Medical School.

[3] On 11 January 1896 he made the first use of X-rays under clinical conditions when he radiographed the hand of an associate, revealing a sterilised needle beneath the surface.

His proposers were Edmond Carlier, Richard Hill Norris, Dawson Turner and Joseph Riley Ratcliffe [Wikidata].

He sat on the Public Health Committee and did much to promote knowledge and understanding of cancer in the medical field.

Dr. John Hall-Edwards prob. ca. 1909
An 1897 advert for the Non-Collapsible Tyre Co. Ltd. of Ryland Street, Birmingham, using an X-ray photograph by Hall-Edwards, and bearing his signature
Blue plaque outside Birmingham Children's Hospital , formerly Birmingham General Hospital
The amputated left hand of John Hall-Edwards, following extensive radiation damage.
The monument to the Martyrs of Radiology in Hamburg