George Clements Pharmacy

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Description:Poster in the window reads "100 years of Service. This shop was opened in 1853 by Dr. John Edwards father of the radium pioneer Dr. Hall Edwards. Today the business he comm... conducted in the same tradition of personal service and ..."
John Francis Hall-Edwards (19 December 1858 – 15 August 1926)[1] was a pioneer in the medical use of X-rays in the United Kingdom. He took the first radiograph to direct a surgical operation, on 14 February 1896. Hall-Edwards' interest in X-rays cost him his left arm, which had to be amputated in 1908 as a consequence of X-ray dermatitis.

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Source: Balsall Heath Local History Society , Jim Fitzpatrick , Graham Partlett , Elizabeth McKeon , Diane Stead , Keith Whitehouse

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