EGYPT, MASS., OCT. 9 — Dr. Percy Brown, an x-ray pioneer, is dead at 74 after a scientific career which he once said had exposed him to as much “radioactive damage” as “an experimental Bikini goat.”
The first radiologist to be appointed to the Harvard Medical school, Dr. Brown took up the study of roentgen rays in 1903.
Thirty-one years later he retired because, he said, of “ill health due to the effect of prolonged radiation.” He died yesterday.
Associates said he underwent more than 50 operations on infected portions of his fingers or skin areas turned cancerous by radiation. He was termed “a martyr to x-ray” by Dr. John F. Conlin, medical information director of the Massachusetts Medical society.
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