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The world’s first X-ray photograph of the body swiftly became an international sensation, and now appears in Phaidon’s “Anatomy,” one of two new books that explore the blend of fascination and panic that has long attended our relationships with our physical selves.

As history now knows, the duo was able to solve the puzzle in 1953, with their hallmark models of cardboard and metal only with the help of another scientist, Rosalind Franklin, whose X-ray photograph of the DNA molecule was shown to Dr. Watson without her permission.

First X-ray photograph of a human, in 1895.

Even my information that a pretty X-ray photograph of DNA existed elicited no real response.

Since the door was already ajar, I pushed it open to see her bending over a lighted box upon which lay an X-ray photograph she was measuring.