Searching for the first recorded therapeutic treatment by radiation in Australia

The article is about the discovery of evidence that experiments using X-rays as therapeutic treatment were being undertaken in rural Australia in the latter half of 1896. These experiments were being carried out in the then small provincial town of Albury NSW, and the possibility exists that these recorded experiments were indeed the first undertaken on patients with diagnosed cancer in Australia. he article chronicles the events as they were reported in the media at the time and explores the possible sequence of events that led to these experiments being attempted at all. Copyright (1998) Australian Institute of Radiography