ABSTRACT
Military uses of X-rays were considered early in 1896 with the Munich Medizinische Wochenschrift reporting on February 4th of that year that the Prussian War Ministry in Berlin was undertaking experiments to see if X-rays could be useful to sick and wounded soldiers. American experience in military radiology commenced with the Spanish-American war of 1898, which resulted in the annexation of Puerto Rico and the Philippines and the setting up of Cuba as an independent republic. To bring military radiography up to date it is reported that during the Gulf war of 1991 the United States army set up two CT scanners in field hospitals in Saudi Arabia and that there were also two CT scanners aboard US Navy hospital ships. The Italian army had suffered a crushing defeat by the Ethiopians at the battle of Adowa on March 1st 1896.
