X-Rays and the Law 



X-RAY pictures have been used as 

 evidence in law suits brought for 

 personal injuries in order to show 

 the injured parts clearly. To mark the 

 negative for identification, lead letters 

 (opaque to X-Rays) have been used, ar- 

 ranged at one 



side of the 

 part photo- 

 graphed. This 

 method did 

 not eliminate 

 the possibil- 

 ity of fraud, 

 and hence the 

 photographs 

 so marked 

 were not al- 

 ways accept- 

 able to the 

 courts. There 

 was no way 

 of proving 

 that the name 

 and date on 

 the picture 

 were not 

 forgeries. As 

 a result some 

 fifteen States 

 have passed 

 laws which 

 prohibit the 

 courts from 

 receiving an 

 X-Ray pho- 

 tograph as 

 evidence un- 

 less the plate 

 or card on 



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To be used as evidence in an accident case, an X-Ray 



photograph must have a label which could not possibly 



have been forged 



which the name, address, date and re- 

 marks are written is placed either under 

 or over the parts injured. Suppose the 

 bones of a hand are broken and the 

 fracture is to be photographed. It will 

 be necessary under the law in question, 

 to place a label directly on or under the 

 injured part in order to make the 

 photograph acceptable to the court. 

 The lead letters heretofore used cannot 

 be arranged in this manner; they hide 

 the fracture and thus vitiate the eviden- 

 tial value of the photograph. 



Dr. Aurelius De Yoanna, Brooklyn, 



New York, has invented and patented 

 a method of authenticating X-Ray 

 plates which will allow him to mark the 

 injured part and arrange a label directly 

 on or beneath the injured part. It is 

 impossible to "fake" the photograph. 



After the 

 photograph 

 has been tak- 

 en, the frac- 

 ture is dis- 

 tinctly seen 

 through the 

 label. Thus 

 the method 

 overcomes 

 the objection 

 to the lead 

 letters here- 

 tofore em- 

 ployed, and 

 at the same 

 time the vari- 

 ousStatelaws 

 are obeyed . 



The label is 

 so pliable 

 that it may 

 be used on 

 curved parts 

 of the body 

 and in con- 

 nection with 

 celluloid films 

 f ) r plates. 

 When used 

 with a cellu- 

 loid plate the 

 label may be 

 placed on the 



plate or film or on the injured part and 

 the X-Ray taken in the usual manner. 

 The label itself is made of lead, tin- 

 foil, or any other material opaque to 

 X-Rays, so that when written on by a 

 pencil, pen, stylus, typewriter or other 

 device the writing will become trans- 

 parent to the X-Rays. Hence, the 

 written or printed matter on the label 

 may be easily read, and the fracture 

 beneath the label carefully studied. This 

 laljel complies with the law and at the 

 same time does not injure in any way 

 the finished photograph. 



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