Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-09-19
ADVANCE IN SURGERY,
ghe X Rays Arc Working q Revolution In
Medicine.

Medicine.
The development of the new Roent-
gen photography in medicine and sur
gerry continues at IN almost incredible
rate Many of the latest reports from
Europe read like cablc canards, but the
corroborative details and confirmatory
mass OF particulars are enough to con-
/ vince the most skcptical. The greatest
interest centers now i'll the hospital or
laboratory, devoted exclusively to cases
in which tho X rays arc used, which
has been established in Berlin By Pro-
fessor Buka of tho Berlin Polytechnic
UNI. Professor Buka himself is n SCION
titlc export who is peculiarly fitted to
undertake this enterprise, since 1t was
he who discovered that all objects pene-
trable by the X rays become transparent
to the human eye by the aid of
Crooke's tube and a screen smcared
with barium cyanide.
An important now phase Of Roentgon
photography is also reported from Mu-
Mich. At tho international psychologist
congress now being held there al appa-
ratus of special design was used which
enabled tho spectators to observe clearly
the action of the diaphragm and heart
of u subject. Just as photography has
succeeded in reproducing life motion by
means of tho kaleidoscope, vitascope and
cinemotogruph, so the hitherto invisible
action of the internal organs may hero
after be observed. Not only that, but
by the present process these Roentgen
ray photographs might be taken fast
enough to insure their reproduction on
screen. The children Of the next gen.
Grafton may thus study anatomy III tho
most realistic fashion. AS Professor
Buka himself has been quoted as dcciar-
ing, Skiagraphy is still IN its tallow
candle stage What will it be when it
| reaches its electric light era?
As for the purely medical aspect OF
it's development, it is now stated. 40
cording to the report of NM. Lor-
tot and Genoud to the French academy
of sciences, that tuberculosis is affected
by the X rays. They inoculated eight
guinea pigs with tuberculosis virus and
exposed three Of them 70 the rays for an
I hour daily during eight weeks The five
which were kept from the rays developed
assesses, and their health was derang-
ed The three kept in good health and
grey fat on the rays. The effect Of or
binary sunlight on bacilli has been tried
in the past, but with far from such
decisive result The Roontsen rays burn
the human skin itself like sunlight, and
even destroy the hair.
Another curious extension of the use
of these rays is the discovery by Pro
fessors Grumbach and Du Bots Raymond
Of Berlin that they will not only photo
graph the invisible bones of the body,
but also some Of the softer parts as well.
BY means OF improved tubes these two
scientists have succeeded in revealing
the larynx and the diaphragm. The doc
1or Of tomorrow will evidently have no
need Tor a diagnosis All that will he
necessary for him to do will be to pull
ont his little Roentgen snap shot camera
and present 10 the patient indisputable
ocular evidence OF the precise ailinent
Cases of wrong diagnosis will be rare
indeed Even the exact causes Of dys-
pcpsia vii! be revealed at n glance, and
nobody will need 10 be apprehensire
about appendicitis or i'll dread doubt us
to the need OF the surgeons horrifying
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