The herald., 1896-10-06
Be Inaugurated
Today
THE APPARATUS
TESTED
It's Accomplishment Have Been Already
Demonstrated
Many Visitors Have Investigated the
Proposition and Are More Than Sat-
isfied with the Results.

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The plan has been fully set forth here
tofore. The apparatus has been fully
tested by DIR. Yoakum, and the arrange
ments as heretofore announced will be
carried out to the letter.
q SOME FACTS DEMONSTRATED.
Innumerable purses. hand bags. boxes,
gloves, shoes and packages submitted
by guests to The Herald's test exhibi-
tions of its wonderful x-ray apparatus
have had their contents revealed by
the penetrating illuminator Of the invisi-
BILE.
Boards of various woods fastened to-
gether, with nails, screws, scissors ana
other articles placed between them nave
shown their enclosures plainly visible
in the lighter shadows Of the encasing
woods. Four boards nailed together, 10
a total thickness Of three inches, sent IN
by Mr.. William Gibson. were said 10
contain a dark triple mystery known
only to the sender, a mystery separate
and distinct in each of the three inter-
stices between the boards. Exposed 10 the
new searchlight of science, three dark,
round mysterious shadows, all OF size,
(loateti plainly into view IN the misty
penumbra of the more translucent
blanks The learned doctor refused 10
degrade his professional dignity to a
diagnosis of this case. The writer, now
ever. being less sensitive to the ethics
of a profession to which he aspires oniy
when in i'll health made skillful IN
cision. not into the planks. as mecnan,
ic might have done, but, ike gooo
doctor, into the character of the sender
and determined that the three mysteri-
nQI1SPn
terminating blood spots. as at hrst sus-
pected, but by twenty-dollar goio
piece. a bone poker chip, and sunday
school motto engraved Good Tor nve
cents at the Trimniin's counter!
Under the new light the Medical ana
Surgical Register, book OF l7Oo pages,
can be looked through" In exactiy the
one hundred thousandth part OF MN
ute. without even taking the troupe 10
open the book. Impatient medical stu
dents should make a note Of this:
Various toads, canaries. cnlckens'
fish. rabbits and cats have taken advan :
tage of The Herald,s invitation to bask
in the glow of the new illuminant ano
have exposed their "innards" outwaros
in their active, living entirety WIN
-hockingly immodest abandon founo
oniy in the brute creation. A practical
ranchman advances the suggestion tnat
those who have lost diamonds whicn
thew suspect their chickens Of having
s,vallowed for giz2ard-grinders, should
;nvest in X-ray outfits. To this we ap.
pend the further suggestion lhat u VIII
..ol be necessary to BUY separate out,
fit for each chicken. One apparatus Will
he sufficient for a flock of the ordinary
-,ss. Thirty of forty dollars per chicken
mont in this way may save the liVes
nd regulations of many moral hens
tosides furnishing information OF prao
tical value to spectators IN future
poultry products.
Arms and hands without NUMBER, pare
and gloved, wrapped In clotn ana pouno
in splints. have cast the outlines Of their
bony structures upon the tell-tale phos-
phorescent screen.
In the hand of Mrs. r. L. Hopkins was
found a tiny piece of metal, probably the
broken point of needle, showing very
dimly, lodged in the left thumb joint.
In the hand of Mrs. Murray of Temple
street, which, like many others, she
placed behind the screen merely for the
novelty of looking at ones own bones,
there was found as distinctly defined as
the shadow Of church steeple on a
bright day the outline Of needle an
inch and half long, lying transversely OF
the phalanges of the second and third
fingers, midway between the knuckles
and the metacarpal bones. The wonder
dence Of it's presence was only exceeded
by the astonishment of Mrs. Murray her
self, who had never known of its exist
ence, and, as far as she could recollect,
had never had cause or symptom to sus
pect it,
These tests have been made subject to
the wishes of all callers. In regard to
publicity of developments, accounts Of
a number of cases of especial interest to
the medical fraternity are reluctantly
omitted here. Among the many callers
who expressed timidity at the prospect
of the publication Of the results obtained
it was refreshing to hear the Hon. Jack
Rivers vociferously demand the "Bony-
part medal for the second finger of his
right hand, which under the rays turned
out to be a verltable whited sepulchre,
full Of tangled bones, which needed only
to be denuded of it's flesh to serve its
owner for a handy cork-screw. So read
lily apparent was this that even the dig
nified doctor, who Is seldom facetious,
referred to the investigating scrutiny OF
the Hon. Jacks fist as sort of cork
scrutiny" so to speak.
A lead pencil exposed to the glow
showed transparent wood, dark line
of lead, and the white rubber tip to he
impermeable to the new light, as are
bone, iron and glass. This led to exper-
iment with hard rubber, soft rubber and
celluloid; and resulted In the discovery
that while hard rubber Is transparent
under the new light, celluloid Is less So
and soft white rubber quite impermeable
to it, f
The suggestion Is made to surgeons
that in treating patients under the y
rays. when soft or flexible tubes,
bougees, probes, ETC., are used they
should be of soft white rubber or Of cell
luloid, in order that their course may
be distinctly followed throughout the
operation.
Surgical dressings, even where wood
en- splints are used, clothing, shoes
gloves, etc, are but slight impedimenta
to clear view of the bones. whether
the surrounding flesh is swollen or in Its
normal state.
The exact condition of q fracture
whether simple, compound, splintered
split. straight. or oblique, Is readily dis
tinguishable and the process of healing
removal of the bandages, splints OF
dressing.
Diseases Of the bones and joints, en-.
largements, dislocations. etc.. are as
readily and accurately investigated and
diagnosed as II stripped of their flesh.
Fleshy parts are most readily permea-
BILE. decreasing in translucency in pro
portion of their thickness: gristle and
fat are more Opaque. and the varying
density of the fat and lean streaks of q
slice of bacon are slightly distinguish
able while the bones. especially in
adults, show distinctly in dark silhouette
becoming more traslucent upon long ex
posure.
A thick tendon. as. for example, the
tendon Achilles, which when struck al
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