Henry Green Uses X-rays in Attempt to Locate a Bullet in Theodore Studley

The article reported that “another attempt will be made soon,” but so far I haven’t found any record of this second attempt – or, unfortunately for Mr. Studley, any record that the bullet was eventually removed from his leg.

Green applied for a permit to build a laboratory in his back yard on May 1, 1896.

Theodore Studley was an inspector at Colt’s Armory, and he’d been accidently shot in the leg in 1894.  Up until this point, doctors had been unable to find the bullet in his leg, and so the bullet had remained in his leg.

Green applied for a patent on a coin-operated public x-ray vending machine on September 30, 1896.

1. “Henry Green, the proprietor of the establishment, was one of the first in this country to experiment with the X rays.”
2. “Mr. Green used the X rays in his laboratory within ten days after Roentgen discovered the process.”
3. “Mr. Green’s experiments have been with the view to improve the apparatus so as to render it more efficient and to cast the rays through a greater density than before.”

Unattributed, "Improved X Rays: Effort to See an Imbedded Substance with the Naked Eye," Hartford Courant, July 18, 1896, page 6.