The San Francisco call., 1896-12-13
NEW TO-DAY.
EXAMINED BY THE X-RAY.
DR.. Cook, the Great Specialist,
Admits a Reporter to His
Laboratory.
A Marvellous System of Treatment
With Different Kinds of Elec.
trical Current.

| Among the many subjects of keen pub.
| lie interest to-day there is none that
claims more attention than that of the ap-
| plication OF the great x ray discovery of
DR.. Roentgen, and especially is this true
when its use by medical men IS consid-
cred. The demand for X ray instruments
has been enormous, so the makers of
scientific instruments say, and the medi-
cal fraternity generally is much stirred up
over the matter. 1t is eminently gratifv-
ing to know, however, that one of the
finest, and probably the very finest, ap-
paratus OF this nature which has ever
been constructed in the world was secured
by DR.. Cook, the eminent specialist of S65
Market street. That fact Is not surpris-
ing, as it is we'll known in scientific cir
cles that DIR. Cook is invariably the first
physician to pour out his money on any
improvement in medical or surgical ap-
paratus, no matter in what quarter OF the
globe the discoveries are made. Cost
what they may, this learned specialist
buys them all, and after submitting them
to most careful experiments keeps what
he finds to be unquestionably good. Ever
since the installation of his great x ray
apparatus, it has been the custom to beg
from him an opportunity to see patient
examined by ii. so that full account
might be given of il, bat as all his pa
tents affairs are kept very strictly conf
Dental, it was not till a couple OF days
ago that some one was found who was
willing to have reporter present when
the doctor "looked through him." as he
called it.
After wait of few minutes the party
daH ~ anaNiaIlW ar Op0 do
partment where! the wonderful instru-
ments are, and not a moment was lost in
preliminaries. The patient stood up held
by two assistants. the electrical apparatus
was started in motion with queer burr
ing sound and the doctor, with steady
hand and eye ablaze with interest placed
the observing screen at the patients Guest.
All was silent as death, except for the
whir of the dynamo, and slowly the screen
was passed from point to point over the
entire front of the body, and this COM
pleted the patient was turned round and
an exa nination of the back was begun in
the same way Eventually the doctor
paused. Evidently he had become much
interested. For minutes he never moved
his glance from the screen. Then the on
ward march was taken up again, and at
length the examination was completed.
Notes having been made the reporter was
allowed to look through the screen just at
Wlere the "a ray QaO. SHOWN Iue SedJ VI
disease to be. II was simply marvellous.
There plainly. even TO an un ntutored
eye, was distinct enlargement ofthe liver,
the construction and form of which was as
plainly visible as if the man had been dis
sected then and there.
81 shall first of ali treat him with Far
radio electrical current" said the doctor
as the party left the X-ray department,
and consent being again given an adj
iournment was made to the medical cleo
trical department Here there is grand
com mbinatiop of devices, probably the best
in existence, for imparting the electrical
current directly to any part of the system.
On one side are ARRANGED the connections
for giving ,ealvanie electrical energy, and
from the other the Farradic current
issues. A large switchboard, which con-
trolls the distribution of the force from
three distinct sets of storage batteries, is
on one side of the room, and there is also
an operating-tab,e and cabinet of medi-
cal and surgical appointments. "Before
treating him" said DR.. Cook, II will ex-
anime his throat and allow you to do the
same, but in advance l may tell you that
it will certainly be found to be little ul-
cerated.' He then inserted very tiny