Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1896-03-21
GLASS in SANDOW'S FOOT.
II Had Travelled Away from the Wound,
but was Discovered by the X Rays.


Eugene Sandow, the strong man,
about two weeks ago put his foot
through the window of a house which |
he wished to rent in East Thirty EIGHT |
street, New York. The house was
vacant, but the keys wouldn't work.
AS result of his Impotence the strong
mans foot was badly cut and for an
hour and 25 minutes Saturday after
noon the y rays, generated by static
machine in the laboratory of DR..
William j. Morton, at 10 East Twenty 4
eight street, New York, played upon
Sandow's foct. When, an hour or so
later, the sensitized plate was de-
veloped, it show ed that there We're IN
all probability three little bits of glass
in the strong mans foot. They are
very small, but they cause him ex-
cruciatiug pain every time he bears
heavily on the part of the foot where
they are lodged.
After the accident to Sandow he re-
turned to his hotel and called his
physician, Dr.. G.. Ii Mercereau of $50
East One Hundred and Sixty.ffth
street. The later probed the wound,
but found no pieces of glass, gave it an
antiseptic dressing and bandaged it.
Sandow went on with his perform
ances as though nothing had happened.
In the course of few days the foot
began to bother him when he gave it
a sudden or awkward turn. DR.. Mer-
cereau reopened the wound, but the
probe did not reveal anything. After
several days DIR. Mercereau felt that
glass had probably got into the foot
and Travelled away from the wound.
Glass has habit of doing that. And
" neither there was any glass in the
foot was a question that had to be
settled in a hurry to prevent an abcess
and other complications.
DR.. Mercereau determined to have
the X rays turned on, and with Sandow
and Mr.. Ziegfeld went to DR.. Morton s
laboratory to have the foot radio
gfaphed. DR.. Morton tried by pressure
To locate the glass, aud several times
made Sandow vince as he touched a
particularly tender spot. Then Sandow,
in his shirt sleeves. and seated in an
easy-chair, faced the static machine.
DR.. Morton strapped the barred frot to
plate holder, and above, and less than
an inch from it, suspended vacuu m
tube. Then the machine was started,
and in a moment or two the tube was
brilliant with the fiuoreseuce of the X
rays. 1t was hard foot to penetrate,
DIR. Morton remarked, because it was
; very thick and he'd unusually hard
: muscles.
When DR.. Morton stopped the static
machine the X rays died out aud San
:, dow ran off to the theater to keep his
t engagement. DIR. Morton developed
: the plate, and it showed under the
long bone III the ball of the foot, the
} bone That leads to the third toe, three
: small, irregular patches. The rest of
, the bone was clear, white aud regular,
but these three patches were Irregular
| and hazy; they were merely sugges-
ton, as it were, and DIR. Morton had
f no boubt they were the photographs of
the pieces of glass. They had Travelled
, halfway aero s the foot, and the Y rays
, in revealing them had pierced the bone
aud made it translucent. While DR..
Morton is assured that the shadows
: are in all probability made by bits OF
glass, he will confirm his belief by hav-
ing Sandow sit again. This time The
rays will be concentrated directly over
4 the point where the shadows were re-
a We led, and it they APP ear again there
Y will be no doubt about what produces
{ them. Dr. Mercereau will then cut
them out.