The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-02-14
More About the New Photographic
Discovery.

Thomas y. edison is the most el
thusiastic cXperimenter with til
Roentgen Photographic rays. Tho wiz
ard goes TO the length Of saying thi
this discovery Of Rocntgen is create
than anything that he has been credit
ed with, and that it is going to lea
.. to moro Important results than an!
thing yet reached in the scientifi
world. And ii but fraction OF tn
reports and thcorizings that como fror
the different laboratories, both q
colleges and private experimenters, i
sustained by the final conclusions, Mr.
Edison's prediction will be justified
Ito is himself at work to photograph
the interior of mans brain. Othc
eXperimenters have declared the fea
to be impossible, since the BRAIN il
less Opaque than the skull, and thu
latter is likely TO retard the rays more
than the former. He Will have 4
special plateholder, two inches square,
which will be- placed in the mouth of
the subject, while the battery of tubes
will be placed on top the subject S
head. But Edison has accomplished
so much that many believe him capable
of doing whatever he undertakes. Al
ready he has discovered a cheap sub
stitute for the expensive Crooke's
{,,har Ia ,,1n ~.
light bulb, and finds it even more sat
isfactory than the tubes. He has sue
ceeded in doing all that Professor
Roentgen haa done. and now proposes
to surpass all experimenters.
a strange result was wrought by a
New York experilnenter the other day
in testing the cathode system Of pho
Biography upon mouse. The animal
was thoroughly drowned, as was sup
posed, and about two hours atterward
was placed IN the photographing APP
paratus. After a long exposure the
cxperimenter was surprised to see the
mouse exhibit signs of returning life.
The recovery was rapid. and in a i
short time the little animal appeared |
none the worse for the ordeal through |
which it had passed, Now the inter
esting question is what the
cahode rays had to do with it.
Prof. Pupin of Columbia college, who
is one Of the eyperimenters, says that
there is "A great production Of ozone
about the machines where Rocntgen
are being taken. One of
lis assistants working there was up
Ills day, all night and all the next
lay, and at II O'Clock at night was
till fresh. Edison contends that
he X rays will retard the termination
f bacilli. and he believes that they
;iI destroy them. He intends ;
laking an exhaustive series Of expert
nents on this subject.
Electricity is wonderful thing, and ,
pparently only IA beginning has been
lade of the solution Of its mysteries ,,
nd the utilizing of its powers to t
enefit mankind. We are just opening c
he door upon a domain where almost
nything is believable. But aside ]
-om all the medical possibilities in
olvcd in the discovery. perhaps the y
lost astonishing claim in connection I
18th it, is that which comes from h
Italian savant. Professor Salvioni of !,
eruiga read a paper before the Rome II
.edical Academy on Saturday, in 4
hich he describes an optical instru :
emf Of his invention which enables p
le human eye, by means of Roentgen :
US, to see through anything which o
0se rays can penetrate. 1t is said q
at Professor Salvioni produced his d
invention, and by its means
lysicians present were enabled to see 81
O contents of closed aluminium S
Il. Unfortunately, no explanation is d
ven of the means USED to make the IT
therto invisible rays perceptible by a
ans optic nerve. Prof. T.. p. Al
Of New York, claims to il
We discovered a process by which b
c heart may be seen to beat and the IL
her hidden motions and processes of Il
{ studied by means of these rays
Iere was a case in Berlin the other mr.
y where needle lodged in the low at at.
part of woman's stomach causing su
eessive bleeding and threatening III,
lth, was found by means of the sia
e and safely removed. de