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Google web search, 2026-10-08 (Investigator, STEP I)

Site: https://www.google.com (Chrome). Pages opened from these results have their own notes (nytimes, nyhistory, upenn-archives, wikipedia, electrotherapy-museum). Queries: 1. "Sinclair Tousey" obituary OR died OR biography 2. "Sinclair Tousey" X-ray radium Garden City 1937 3. "Tousey, Sinclair" papers New-York Historical Society OR finding aid OR collection 4. Geyser "Cornell tube" Tousey contact x-ray (one irrelevant result) 5. "Albert C. Geyser" Cornell x-ray tube contact burns 6. Tousey electrotherapy museum Behary OR "Tousey tube" OR "Tousey coil" 7. "Dr. Sinclair Tousey" radium OR "x-ray" 1904..1937 8. "Tousey" "X-Ray Keratoses on Hand of Radiologist" 9. "Tousey" "Medical Electricity" Tesla OR Oudin OR "free energy" OR "radiant" forum 10. "Tousey" "Invisible Rainbow" electricity ear "one of the last electrotherapists" 11. x-ray burns "static charge" OR "electrostatic" OR "condenser" theory dermatitis 1900s history tube electric field 12. "Sinclair Tousey" 1864 1937 physician Columbia OR Harvard OR "Who's Who" 13. site:energeticforum.com Tousey Result: positive.

Leads from result snippets (not all pages opened)

  • Biography: a ScienceDirect Topics page ("Histologist - an overview") says "Sinclair Tousey (1864–1937) graduated from Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons (1888) and was Professor of Surgery at New York School of Medicine". [web] https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry (snippet; source chapter not identified). An author index (authorandbookinfo.com) gives "Sinclair TOUSEY {US} (M: 1864 - ?)". Publishers Weekly 1909 lists "Tousey, Sinclair, M.D. The X-ray in dentistry. [N.Y., Sinclair Tousey, 59 W. 46th St.,] 1909 ... (Priv. pr.) Read before the New Haven Dental ..." [web] https://archive.org/stream (Publishers Weekly 1909-04-10).
  • Own case report on his own hands (claim 1, operator safety): Oxford Academic, Archives of Radiology and Electrotherapy (BJR archive), vol. 20 no. 10 (1916), p.344: "X-Ray Keratoses on Hand of Radiologist. Cured by Radium. Dr. SINCLAIR TOUSEY reported this case. He stated that his own hands had long been ..." [web] https://academic.oup.com/bjrbir/article-pdf/20/10/344/57486712/are.1916.0084.pdf (PDF not opened). Tousey, the advocate of a dose that "never causes dermatitis" for patients, reported chronic x-ray damage to his own hands. That is pertinent to claim 1 and to the history of operator exposure.
  • Keloid treatment credited to Tousey: The Scar Book (pdfcoffee copy) says x-ray's "first use for keloids was described by Sinclair Tousey (1818 to 1887), an early advocate of medical electricity and Roentgen rays". The dates are those of the publisher grandfather, so the source conflates the two men; the priority statement itself is a lead to check. [web] https://pdfcoffee.com (snippet)
  • Related modern work (priority 3): Arthur Firstenberg, The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life (2017 [memory: medium]), cites "Sinclair Tousey, one of the last electrotherapists of the old school", who "wrote about electricity and the ear in the third edition of his textbook". Firstenberg is a critic of electromagnetic-field exposure. [web] https://dn721909.ca.archive.org/... (snippet). Carolyn Thomas de la Peña's The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American (2003, [memory: medium]) cites Tousey 1921 p.355. A 2016 University of Houston thesis, J. C. Womack, "the development of radiation therapy, 1895-1925" (UH Institutional Repository, https://uh-ir.tdl.org), cites Tousey (snippet). Not opened.
  • Alternative-energy community use (priority 3): the book is circulated on Energetic Forum in threads on the electrophorus ("It is under static electricity chapter"), on "Visual Phenomena Observed in Tesla, TARIEL KAPANADZE etc." (quoting Tousey on the vacuum electrode lighting violet on contact with the patient) and in a Donald L. Smith thread. [web] https://energeticforum.com/forum/3210-electrophorus (snippets). This explains why the book sits in the owner's Energy folder: free-energy researchers read it for static, Tesla and Oudin high-frequency apparatus, not for its medicine.
  • Condenser theory of x-ray burns (claim 2), historical context: "The Burning Question: Early U.S. Radiology and X-Ray ..." (Academia.edu) says "Some believed that X-ray burns were caused by the electrical field surrounding the X-ray tube"; eRADIMAGING course text says the same. Widder 2014 (see 2026-10-08-pubmed.md) dates the experimental separation of dose from electric effects to Kienböck, 1900.
  • Interested party, Geyser: NYT 12 Apr 1908, "NEW TUBE ROBS X-RAY OF DANGER; Cornell Professor's ..." (Geyser demonstration); Geyser, "Using the X-ray without burning", JAMA (1908) https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/426844 (not opened). This is the other side of the Tousey-Geyser dispute, in Geyser's own words.