The herald., 1896-10-15
TREHERALD' 'SX-RAYCL|N|C
The Largest Number Yet
Treated
OVER ONE HUNDRED CASES
Examined Under the Marvellous
New Light
MANY FRACTURES LOCATED
A Shot Found Ia the Stun? OF q
Mans Arm
Other Cases Of More Than Ordinary Ictersst
Properly Diagnosed
Professor Lowe Inspects the Apparatus
and Gives His Views-Some Things
that Could Be Improved Upon.
Special Clinics Today.

that Could Be Improved Upon.
Special Clinics Today.
The Heralds X-ray free clinic yester-
day morning exceeded in numbers any
| X-ray clinic yet held. Over a hundred
cases were examined. Work was be-
| gun half an hour ahead of the time ap-
pointed, and lasted through the hour set
| for the nurses till nearly l o'clock, YET
| it was only by the quickest work that
| the clinic could be completed. At one
| time ten patients were examined in four
| minutes. This rapidity was excep-
| tional, however, some cases requiring
! from ten to twenty minutes for exam
| nation.
| The day before several find-it-if-you-
can cases were brought. For example,
one doctor brought patient of whom
he would give no information. Doctor
Yoakum found bullet in him. An
other brought boy submitted with
out comment" Doctor Yoakum found a
needle in his knee. That was what they
were looking for. 1t had entered the
boys foot several years before. None
of such cases could be stopped for today.
Then, too, there has generally been
number claiming ON trivial grounds of
truth to be afflicted with serious in
juries in order to get view of the ap-
paratus and it's performances. This
sort received very scant attention yes
terday. One old lady got in who was
surprised and disappointed that the
skilled doctor could not locate fish
bone which she distinctly remembered
having swallowed eighteen years ago.
The doctor was suffering yesterday
from a cold and the machine seemed to
have another. 1t acted with all the
crankiness of a girl with her first beau.
At one time it did the best work it has yet
done, but most of the time it was balky
and sulky in its behavior. and disre-
spectful generally in its demeanor. No
body could explain this till finally Miss
Parkinson, the little lady who manipu-
lates the peculiar marvel, declared that
the vacuum of the CrookeS tube was too
high. Being asked for explanation in
technical terms, she said, if the sort of
pyrOtechnical terms were meant that she
had had to overhear through all these
clinics, the insolent attitude of the ap-
paratus was due to the humerus interme-
diaries of the metacarpal node at it's
phalangeai junction with the tarsal
ulna of the cuthodic potential which had
grown fast and adhered to the tibia of
the shin-b bone Of the dingus. This made
the whole thing clear. 1t takes woman
to understand theX-ray outfit. A maa
would be lost in wonder one minute and
want to smash the earth the next. That
Is the difference between men and
women. A woman submitted to the
X-ray yesterday was so translucent that
her physician. DR.. Semen, could see
every bone in her skeleton. He could
1,o 30 ,A,. he 81 md tInr
| line of her brain within the bony con-
| fines of her skull. This was not alone
| due to the extraordinary good behavior
| of the machine, which seemed to smile
with especial favor upon this lady. 1t
| was due in part to happy clearness of
| vision; also. no doubt, in DR.. Semen.
| who has had but little, if any, experience
with the apparatus. Dr. Yoakum was
| surprised at the clearness with which
DR.. Semen could follow him as he To-
| Gated the organs, bones, parts, etc., IN
| the conflicting shadows upon the screen
| 1t is unusual and attained generally only
| with practice. Anyone can see the
money through purse, the bones, cords.
| etc, of the hand, forearm, foot or lower
| limb, but when it comes to separating
the conflicting shadows of flesh. organs.
bones arteries, etc. of the jumbled-up
| shadow of the trunk or diagnosing, so to
! speak, the apparently solid black shad-
ow the head, and separating by just a
trif1ing difference of density the outline
| of the brain and the skull bone, 1t can
generally be accomplished only by an
experience with hundreds of cases such
| as constant attendance upon The Her.
| AIDS clinics. for instance, would give.
Aonther of the tubes gave out under
today's pressure. With tubes the size
of No. lamp chimneys, costing 5000 a
dozen, giving out at the rate OF half
dozen in ten days. the Crookes tube fac
tory ought not to complain OF hard
| times.
An unusual number of cases of bone
fracture, necrosis of bones. stiff joints
at knee. wrist and hand. and. cases sim
liar to those described heretofore were
present. One man had bullet in his
knee, another a bullet in his hand. an
other broken ankle, q woman some
thing the matter with her thumb" +"
which turned out to be a needle, plainly
visible, another's ribs. breastbone,
heart etc, were unusually plain. The
case most interesting Of all to the ply
sicians present, among whom were Drs.
Palmer. Dr. Cuthbert of Santa Monica,
DR.. Miller, Robert E. Smith, DR.. Green
of Pasadena, Carl Schwalbe. M. D..
DR.. Fred Shurtleff and others was
brought in by DR.. Carl Schwalbe. 1t
was a case, No. 272. of ricketts,, which
usual even to physicians. IT was re-
ouested. however. that 1t be not de-
scribed in the published report of the
clinic.
Miss Helen Hollar, Miss Sadie G.
Walker. Miss Annie Mckinney of st.
Luke's hospital San Francisco, Mrs. J.
S. Burrel Miss Kimbloc, Mrs. Anna
White of New York. Sarah Jameson of
Boston. Miss Eleanor jacobson of St
I.uke's. Chicago, and Emma x. Fisher
of Louisville. KY, left names or cards
Twenty or thirty more nurses were ad-
mitted to the clinic examinations with
which the hour set for their view of the
apparatus was overrun. All expressed
themselves deeply interested in The
Feralds charitable and substantial
efforts for the afflicted Of all classes, and
more pleased and instructed by the
clinic examinations than any special
exposition or lecture which could have
been devised for their benefit.
Thanks are returned here to Mrs. ~
A. Gates of Pasadena. a patient who had
had her arm examined last week. and
the others who responded to The Her
AIDS call for extraordinary cases to
show the nurses. issued when 1t was un-
foreseen that the regular cliric cases
| vvo,Y16 hA "a n1YnQrolig Al to fully over.