"It is advisable to have a regular chest x-ray however well you feel..."

[SurelyYoureJokingMrFeynman]

"... and to consult your own doctor:–
if a cough lasts more than three weeks,
if you should spit up blood,
if 'run down' or unduly tired, or
after influenza.

Please recommend this service to your friends"

From the Mass Radiography Service in 1959, on a printed slip notifying of a clear chest x-ray (for a recent arrival in the UK, so probably TB screening).

I wonder when they stopped "regular chest x-rays" if you feel a bit peaky?

And what other 1950s health practices we'd throw our hands up at?

Yikes, all those unnecessary x rays!

Didn't they use to xray children's feet for shoe fitting?

Think so! and Teeth xrays every visit when i was little!

Oh yes, I used to love wiggling my toes in the Clarks x-ray machine!

And that must have been the 1970s.

My friend has a letter from a tobacco company to her great aunt from the 1920s. It was to thank her for the unsolicited testimonial she had sent them saying that smoking their brand of cigarettes was greatly improving her asthma

Here are some of the ways radium used to be used

Among other things, this radioactive element was added to chocolate, water, children's toys and night lights, impotence cures, toothpaste and cosmetics.