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jokur_and_batmon
· 4 years ago
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What in the fuck happened to the middle finger?
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guest_
· 4 years ago
Radiation exposure. CRI most likely. Cutaneous Radiation Injury. Doses as low as 2 rads can trigger it in healthy people. “Mild” symptoms from a relatively low dose will usually just include itching and dryness, maybe erythema- redness; or edema- fluid swelling. Higher doses can cause phases where the symptoms present for days or weeks, subside for a few days, and return once or several times based on dose and other factors. Higher doses can cause blistering, loss of hair, destruction of sweat glands under the skin. Higher doses can cause skin to lighten or darken, ulceration, or necrosis. Particularly high dosage of even less penetrating radiation such as X-rays can carry symptoms of accrue radiation poisoning. Like most ionizing radiation exposure there is also increased risk of cancers and with “low frequency” ie: low penetration radiation- sarcoma, skin cancer, is a major concern from very high or chronic high exposure.
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guest_
· 4 years ago
The finger nails may stop growing, and at higher dosages fall out and of die. Natural regeneration will usually heal temporary exposure related illness below fatal thresholds- but especially high and or chronic exposure will not only prevent regeneration- but can kill cells like those which are responsible for nail growth.
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guest_
· 4 years ago
Within days of the discovery of Xrays, doctors, scientists, and “hobbyists” saw their potential. The first dental X-rays were taken within two weeks of the announced discovery of the X-ray. The understanding was poor and the technology primitive. Exposure to a radiological source for a standard X-ray photo was often 25-45 minutes, and some cases of hours of exposure are on record. With effectively no deliberate shielding or mitigation of source exposure- patients and technicians (used here loosely) routinely would have received doses 200 rad and more- with near countless records of people Recieving doses that would be 2 or even 3 thousand rad in one session.
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guest_
· 4 years ago
X-rays were quickly adopted, and almost as quickly people started to notice there were “side effects” although many struggled to understand them and they were often written off as coincidence and not attributed to the use of the X-ray- that said, many physicians and users understood there was some link of danger there even if they couldn’t articulate the cause. As early as the late 1800’s records show some physicians recommending patients not have X-rays for conditions they felt the X-ray would be worse than the condition, physicians logging experiments indicating links of cause and effect between X-rays and skin issues.
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guest_
· 4 years ago
Even at least one record in academia of an afflicted scientist attempting to use various materials including petroleum jelly or tin foil and gloves as protection while using X-rays.
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guest_
· 4 years ago
Funny enough, after a time, “side effects” more or less stopped being reported unless they were abnormal- as it just became an expected part of X-ray usage. It wouldn’t be until almost a half century that we truly had an understanding of the mechanics and enough data to make a solid link between radiation and cancer. Of course this was somewhat set back by the fact that the United States undertook concerted efforts after the bombing of Japan to downplay the lingering effects and “most unpleasant” effects of the bombs; and to discredit Japanese and international claims of the humanitarian aftermath of their use. Journalists were toured around the trinity test site to “prove” that shortly after an atomic bomb goes off- it is perfectly safe with no lingering hazards.
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guest_
· 4 years ago
So early X-ray techs who didn’t even have the benefit of this knowledge, or often times at least suspected but knew of no way to mitigate the risks or the true mechanisms, and knew they had a revolutionary technology they felt was worth the price; often received VERY high localized dosages of ionizing radiation.
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guest_
· 4 years ago
As a matter of fact- one man is recorded to supposedly have had over 100 amputations and surgical procedures for his use of X-ray equipment- and later killed himself. Amputation wasn’t that uncommon for those working regularly with X-rays at the time in fact.
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guest_
· 4 years ago
So to answer your question- the middle finger as well as the other fingers shows what looks like necrosis (death) of tissues- where your flesh dies on your living body and rots as a corpse would, ulceration, edema, and other signs of very high dose chronic radiation exposure, and likely early formations of cancerous cells. I would see amputations and or death in this persons future just based on that photo alone as the damage doesn’t look like it was caused by an isolated and high intensity exposure- it looks chronic, which is far worse at the thresholds we are talking about.
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