The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1896-05-30
The all seeing Eye.

! hitherto most cIOSeiy SHdluoo 'o"io'
of Nature are clearly unveiled.
Through it the dark becomes light,
and the Opaque transparent. "her
the world was startled with the results
and the possibility of the Roentgen
ray we predicted that we were Oh the
eve of discoveries in the physical and
spiritual world unequaled in human
history, and at no distant day the
Photographic plate would cease to be
a necessity in recording the image, as
science would perfect some process
by means of which the eye could fol
low the rays through hitherto lmpene-
trable substances. Edison has alread-
V reached that point. With the pow
erfuI cathode light behind his patient
he gazes through screen of prepared
chemicals and sees every organ OF the
body As plainly as he sees the dishes
ON the dinner table. The tluorescent
substances used in the screen are
tungsten and calcium. These two ell
ements are fused in furnace, and at
a proper degree of heat form little
crystals. These crystals are glued to
a piece of paper by transparent Gel
luloid paint, and form coating whose
sensitiveness is six times greater than
a similar coating of platinum barium
cyanide.
If the subject stands very close to
the light the body is imptrfectly
transparent, and nothing whatever is
seen. The light goes through bone
and everything just as sunlight goes
through glass. If the patient steps a
foot or two away from the light the
human skeleton stands revealed. A
step further from the light and the
muscles, tissues and organs of the body
appear as plainly as if there was on
outside covering of the flesh. We can
thus. by changing the focus, dimin-
ishing or increasing the light by a
larger or smaller number of tubes, see
just as much or just as little as we de-
sire.
A man comes to surgeon with
bullet in his arm; the surgeon takes
his X ray lamp and his fuorescent
screen and locates the bullet. He
looks through the arm, through the
bone if necessary, and sees just where
the bullet is lodged. The bone may
be fractured. The ray is turned on,
and the surgeon is no longer compelled
to pull and twist, for he can see the
fracture witk his open eyes, and can
as readily join the parts together as
the cabinetmaker can unite pieces of
wood to form an almost invisible joint. |
No photograph is needed for the Auor-
escent screen, and the rays have made
darkness visible. If these rays had
been turned on the stricken Garfield,
the track Of the bullet and the bullet
itself might have been seen, and pos
sibly the life Of the President saved.
These onward steps in science nec-
essltate corresponding change in col
lege curriculum of study and the aids
to investigation in hospital and private
practice. Hereafter every we'll.
equipped college and every WE'LL
hospital must include in
their facilities for study and work
culture and the Roent-
gen ray with Edison's huorescent spec
tacles. The attention of scientists is
now being directed to the action of
The ray upon that geim-life which
Klndles INTO active force so many
forms OF disease. What at first SEEM
I'd "A mere scientific toy isopening one
'f the broadest avenues of scientific
nvest'gatlon upon which the mind
has ever entered.
In this connection the recent state
nent OF Mr.. Denshah, one of the few
followers of Zoroaster, in
'ecent lecture, is of interest, from his
''gh position as II general scientist
md electrical expert. Mr.. Denshah
den'lhed the X ray as one manifesto
''on or what has for several thousand
years been known to Eastern scien.
lists as astral light, the seventh dimen-
'ion or matter. He said that West
'rn scientists were several thousand
years behind the times; and predicted