Arthur Radiguet about to make a radiograph (x-ray) of a recumbent man. Photograph by Radiographie Radiguet, ca. 1898.

Radiguet (1850-1905) had inherited the family optical business when Roentgen's epoch-making discovery was announced. "Radiguet made, advertised and sold x-ray equipment in the very year 1896 ... Among his early contributions to radiology was a (kerosene immersed) copper interrupter for coils ... Bouchancourt's 'lantern', a handheld x-ray tube, precursor of today's portables; and Bouchancourt and Remond's endodiascopy x- ray tube with grounded node, which could be inserted into various orifices (the inevitable necroses soon forced abandonment of this method) ... Radiguet had exposed himself to radiation ... after several amputations, and five painful years, he died in December 1905"--Grigg, loc. cit.