Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

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  • Elizabeth Fleischmann-Aschheim

    Rebekah AbramovichNew York, United States Elizabeth Fleischmann-Aschheim (1865–1905) opened California’s first X-ray photography laboratory in 1896, merely one year after Roentgen’s discovery. Over the course of the next decade, this unlikely figure would become one of the most respected radiographers of those pioneering years. She was born in 1865 in El Dorado County, California, one…