Et maintenant un peu d'histoire ! Rayons X, plus de 100 ans d'épopée lyonnaise

From the discovery of X-rays by Roentgen in 1895 up to the end of the World War I, Lyon was the cradle of the first developments of radiology, radiotherapy and radiation biology. Indeed, thanks to the logistic support of the Lumière brothers and with the help of the mayors-doctors Gailleton et Augagneur, five pioneers were the major contributors of the medical applications of X-rays: Despeignes, the first radiation oncologist, with a treatment against the lymphoma of his neighbor six months only after the discovery of X-rays; Destot, the first radiologist, with the first descriptions of the wrist, hand and foot fractures; Regaud the first radiobiologist, with the first dose-effect laws and the first 1000 patients treated by radiation as director of the biology section of institut du Radium (Paris); Bouchacourt and the radiology of cavitary organs, with the first radiographical views of teeth, the first pelvimetries and the first publication about individual radiosensitivity; Arcelin, pioneer of the heart and kidneys imaging and principal investigator of the first study about secondary effects of radiotherapy.