Over the winter of 1905-1906, it seems, Dr. Leonard was persuaded by Sir Wilfred Powell, the British consul for Pennsylvania to purchase some land on Blackstone Lake. His choice was a 31⁄2 acre island he named Oriole purchased from the Crown on April 11, 1906.
At the time Dr. Leonard was suffering from radiation burns to his hand and later in 1906 had a forefinger amputated. The reason for this distressing situation was the fact that Dr. Charles Lester Leonard was one of the first Röentgenologists or what it is called today Radiologists and in the end one of its martyrs.
Charles ' birth place was not far from his colonial ancestors establishments in Massachusetts. His father, Moses (b 1832) was a successful clothing merchant in Easthampton, …show more content…
Leonard was using a 'skiagraphy ' to take crude x-rays of patients. It was a simple construct and shows complete lack of knowledge of what x-rays were, let alone their dangers. Dr. Leonard became the pioneer in detecting kidney stones and nephritis using x-rays that gave him international recognition.
By June 1897 Charles had developed lesions on the back of a forefinger, which at the time he thought was caused by poor grounding of the equipment. Once he, and a few other early radiologists knew of the dangers of x-rays Charles began a series of papers admonishing any of the practioners that ignored the health hazards.
With his hand damaged by x-rays perhaps it was clear that Blackstone would be a good place to rest and try and recover.
On Oriole Is., Charles had Jim Strachan (a Rosseau Road carpenter and also Sir Wilfred 's contractor) to build a lodge patterned after Wilfred 's including the cross-corner door. Clearly, he was planning to visit Canada often and enjoy his friendship with the …show more content…
and Mrs. Henry Jennings and their older children. I ought to explain that in 1905 and 1906 my parents summered with me and my sister Elisabeth (5 years older than I) at Woodington on Lake Rosseau. My father, an ardent fisherman, hearing of charms of Blackstone wrote to Mr. John H. Jennings asking Mr. J. to take mother and himself in to board for a few days, and to meet them by horse-drawn vehicle at Port Cockburn at the head of Lake Joseph (the automobile had not yet penetrated to Blackstone, and the CPR and Canadian Northern Ontario (now CNR) rail lines from Toronto to Parry Sound had not yet been built, though the Grand Trunk came up through Gravenhurst and a branch line ran to Rose Point and Depot Harbor on Parry Island. We two children were left with a nursemaid at Woodington and father and mother took the lake boat up to Port Cockburn. No Mr. Jennings to meet them at the dock, so they asked about him. It turned out that he had never receive father 's letter but providentially had driven over to Port Cockburn that very day to get a load of feed (otherwise I probably would not be writing these pages now). He was pointed out to father in Port Cockburn and took the two (with the feed) in his wagon back to Blackstone. In 1907 my sister died [May 23, 1907], and thereafter my parents did not wish to return to Woodington. But late in the summer of 1909 (providentially for me again) mother had an unusually
At the time Dr. Leonard was suffering from radiation burns to his hand and later in 1906 had a forefinger amputated. The reason for this distressing situation was the fact that Dr. Charles Lester Leonard was one of the first Röentgenologists or what it is called today Radiologists and in the end one of its martyrs.
Charles ' birth place was not far from his colonial ancestors establishments in Massachusetts. His father, Moses (b 1832) was a successful clothing merchant in Easthampton, …show more content…
Leonard was using a 'skiagraphy ' to take crude x-rays of patients. It was a simple construct and shows complete lack of knowledge of what x-rays were, let alone their dangers. Dr. Leonard became the pioneer in detecting kidney stones and nephritis using x-rays that gave him international recognition.
By June 1897 Charles had developed lesions on the back of a forefinger, which at the time he thought was caused by poor grounding of the equipment. Once he, and a few other early radiologists knew of the dangers of x-rays Charles began a series of papers admonishing any of the practioners that ignored the health hazards.
With his hand damaged by x-rays perhaps it was clear that Blackstone would be a good place to rest and try and recover.
On Oriole Is., Charles had Jim Strachan (a Rosseau Road carpenter and also Sir Wilfred 's contractor) to build a lodge patterned after Wilfred 's including the cross-corner door. Clearly, he was planning to visit Canada often and enjoy his friendship with the …show more content…
and Mrs. Henry Jennings and their older children. I ought to explain that in 1905 and 1906 my parents summered with me and my sister Elisabeth (5 years older than I) at Woodington on Lake Rosseau. My father, an ardent fisherman, hearing of charms of Blackstone wrote to Mr. John H. Jennings asking Mr. J. to take mother and himself in to board for a few days, and to meet them by horse-drawn vehicle at Port Cockburn at the head of Lake Joseph (the automobile had not yet penetrated to Blackstone, and the CPR and Canadian Northern Ontario (now CNR) rail lines from Toronto to Parry Sound had not yet been built, though the Grand Trunk came up through Gravenhurst and a branch line ran to Rose Point and Depot Harbor on Parry Island. We two children were left with a nursemaid at Woodington and father and mother took the lake boat up to Port Cockburn. No Mr. Jennings to meet them at the dock, so they asked about him. It turned out that he had never receive father 's letter but providentially had driven over to Port Cockburn that very day to get a load of feed (otherwise I probably would not be writing these pages now). He was pointed out to father in Port Cockburn and took the two (with the feed) in his wagon back to Blackstone. In 1907 my sister died [May 23, 1907], and thereafter my parents did not wish to return to Woodington. But late in the summer of 1909 (providentially for me again) mother had an unusually