Obituary Notice- Chicago, Illinois Newspaper -1960 for Dr. Emil Herman Grubbe
1875-1960
Dr. E. H. GRUBBE, X-RAY PIONEER, DIES AT AGE 85
Disease He Combated Leads to Death
Dr. Emil H. Grubbe, 85, the father of X-ray therapy, died early Saturday of bronchial pneumonia brought on by a cancerous growth which had spread to his lungs.
Dr. Grubbe, 1205 Sherwin Ave., died in Swedish Covenant hospital which he reentered March 15. An autopsy in the hospital Saturday revealed the pneumonia condition and a larg growth extending from his right armpit thru his right lung.
First X-Ray Treatment
Dr. Grubbe made medical history when, as a physicist at the old Hahnemann Medical college in Chicago, he used X-rays to treat a woman suffering from breast cancer on Jan. 29, 1896.
He began his experiments in late 1895 about the time Wilhelm K. Roentgen, the famed German physicist, dis- covered X-rays and described their nature and how they can be produced.
Six months after his first experiments in creating the rays by putting an electrical charge thru a vacuum tube composed of platinum, Dr. Grubbe underwent the first of 93 operations for irritations from radiation burns that ultimately developed into cancer.
Death Notice from a Chicago Newspaper -1939
For Minnie Grubbe-Freichel
"Freichel-Minnie Freichel March 3, late of 832 Leland Ave., beloved wife of Charles, dear sister of Dr. Emil H. and Otto A. Grubbe. Funeral services Monday, March 6, at 1:30 p.m., from funeral home 4506 Sheridan-Rd. (at Sunnyside). Internment Bethania Cemetery.