Bergonie

Died in Paris, Dr. Bergonie, radium expert of Bordeaux, killed by the effects of the insidious element he had used so adeptly to cure others. At the Bordeaux Clinique, of which he was Roentgenologist,-- he had long carried on experiments with radium, in which he had consummate faith as a curative, studying its effect on gangrenous growths, on cancer. Continued exposure to radium rays caused a disintegration of the cells of his right arm, which had to be amputated. A cancerous infection had invaded his respiratory system. Dying, he called a council of physicians, outlined to them his plans for a radium centre at Bordeaux.

--A specialist in Roentgen Rays (or X-rays as they are generally called) named after the discoverer, William K. Rontgen, a German physicist.