X-Ray Vision: The Closest You'll Ever Come To Being Superman
When Superman was first created as a comic book hero, radiology was a fairly new branch of medical science. No one was quite certain how far this field would go, nor if there were any particular concerns with taking x-rays of the human body. Yet, everyone was fascinated by the concept of being able to see into the human body, see what was wrong with it, and be able to fix everything from a broken bone to treating patients for pneumonia.