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English: Operation on a wounded soldier during World War 1 with the surgeon using a fluoroscope to locate the bullets. An early Crookes x-ray tube visible under the table emits a beam of x-rays vertically through the patient's body. The surgeon wears a large fluoroscope on his face, a screen coated with a fluorescent chemical such as calcium tungstate which glows when x-rays strike it. The x-ray image of the patient's body appears on the screen, with the bullet fragments appearing dark. Although the surgeon is wearing gloves, little protection against radiation appears to be used.

X-rays were discovered in 1895, and World War 1 saw the first major use of x-rays in wartime. France and the US sent trucks equipped with early x-ray machines to the front. The photo is credited to Dr. J. P. Hoguet, a surgeon at the Roentgenographic Dept. of the American Ambulance Hospital at Neuilly, France.

Caption:Below the operating table is the X-Ray tube. The surgeon wears a fluoroscope. The X-Ray tube and fluoroscope combined enable him to locate deep-seated bullets.