The herald., 1896-10-16
HERALD'S X-RAY CLINIC
Another Large Crowd in
Attendance
THE ROOMS FILLED TO OVERLOOKING
Every Walk of Life Was Repre-.
MORE INTERESTING CASES
A Tumor Located 10 the Palm of q
Woman's Hand
A BAD Fracture Located for the Benefit Of q
Physician
Some of the Prominent People Who In.
spected the Marvellous Appara-
tus-Musicians Under the
Mystic Light

The Herald's X-ray got into the pulpit
last Sunday when ]. A. H. Wilson
preached on the text The light shineth
in darkness and the darkness compre-
hendeth it not" 1t attended a wedding
the next day when DR.. E. Bolivar Tax
lor, frequent visitor to it, invited the
whole X-ray outfit to what he called his
"X-ray wedding" 1t got into politics
Tuesday when Orator Sprague tried to
correct himself in speaking of William
Cleveland and Grover Mckinley and the
audience objected because"they are both
alike under the Heralds X-ray." And
now it is on the stage; last night Lew
Hawkins, one of the best and best-known
negro minstrels in the profession, sang
a song about it, guaranteeing the per-
formance of ridiculous impossibilities
with it and told his hearers if they didn't
believe him to go to the Herald and
see for themselves. 1t has made two
valuable discoveries. 1t has examined
more than four hundred afflicted people
whose ailments were generally serious
and OF such character that an external
examination was of necessity uncertain,
and in many cases entirely erroneous.
1t has been of positive benefit to the ma
jority of these people. 1t has instructed
interested and amused hundreds of
others.
1t has had thirty thousand words
written and published about it in the
Herald in ten days. 1t is having book
written about it and now contemplates
a place on the presidential ticket.
The clinic yesterday was record
breaker, the editorial rooms were not
large enough for the crowd, the editorial
stairs and part of the editorial side
walk were called into requisition for
room to accommodate the people who
came with broken bones, stiff joints for
eign substances in the flesh and other
applications to be benefited by the Her
AIDS X-ray free clinic. The whole build
ing smells of iodoform like hospital.
Everybody knows that iodoform is the
best antiseptic for the dressing of
wounds. Its odor is healthfui but aw-
full. 1t is good antiseptic and protec-
tion against disease germs for the rea-
son that no self-respecting germ will
go near wound dressed with 1t because
it smells so awful.
An interesting case yesterday was a
lady with a tumor in the palm of her
hand. 1t was found under the X-ray to
be caused by some foreign substance
louStd III TIC llGSIly llSSutS. l. he IldluTe
of the obstruction was not certainly de-
terminable. Immediate removal by her
family physician was advised.
A lady patient of Drs. Bernard and
Lewis, with broken lower limb showed
under X-ray the fibula healed but tibia
healing less rapidly. Considerable pain
is experienced, caused by nerve innutri-
ton. The Xray confirmed the diagno-
sis of the attending physicians.
Another interesting case was an eld-
erly man cease No. S72) afflicted with
sores on lower part of the leg. Great
pain was complained of. X-ray showed
re-crossed and honeycombed condition
of tbia (shinbone.)
Case $50, boy with partial loss of mo-
tion in lower limbs of which the cause
could not be definitely determined be-
cause of weakening of tube and ray.
Please call again, Saturday.
The tube behaved like cranky old
maid yesterday and acted as if it knew
that the new ones expected on today's
train had not come and it could do as it
pleased.
An adult male patient with an insig-
nificant bruise on the side of his nose
which seemed hardly to entitle him to
an examination. developed under the
X-ray a serious condition of the nasal
bones and was referred to his physician
for immediate treatment Dr. r. w.
Miller called with a patient suffering
from abscess of the mastoid process.
A clear view through the head is a
hard thing to get when the tubes are
doing their best. Yesterday it was quite
impossible to obtain one fully satisfsc-
tory to the physicians Another trial
with new tube is arranged for.
Charles f. Gates, the bycicle writer,
called yesterday go see the X-ray. He
had the point of lead pencil in NiA left
hand and the right had been afflicted
with pen paralysis. The stumps of three
fingers also showed the result of an un-
of cinder mill. All the injured parts
were examined and the condition Of the
bones made apparent to the sight.
John Bowling of Burbank called to
arrange for the location of bullet
stopped by him May TO- 1862. while
fighting under Farragut at New Or
leans. He has been n subscriber to the
Los Angeles Herald for nineteen years.
DR.. John II. Stewart reports his pa
tient, Miss Grace Benedict of Pico
Heights, recovering rapidly and with
out undue pain from the extraction of
the needle in her foot located by the X
ray Tuesday.
DR.. j. S Gibbs called to say he would
bring today patient of interest 20
dentists.
An entertaining view of the wonder
cated by General and Mrs. John r.
Matthews. Mr.. Oscar Lawler, Mr.. Will
liam II. Humphries and Letter Carriers
K. l.. Wilcox. John A. Rhomberg, A. r.
Haight f. F. Richards, William X. Scho-
field. G. A. Robb i. A. Morfoot, F. Adonis
Arthur McDougall, B. w.
Skies, Thomas Romero and Hangell.
Other visitors We're: Mrs. Judge
Widney, who says everybody is talk
ing of the Xray now and the Herald's
charitable work with it,Misses Pearl
and Gertrude Ludlow, Mr.. e. r. Holman,
Mr.. M. e. A. Carter. DIR. r. l.. Burchard,
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. G. Mcclellan Mrs. N.
M. Rogers and Miss Rogers, DR.. c. c.
Browning of Highland, DR.. II. B. Wing,
Professor Dickinson of the University
of California and Mrs. Dickinson, Mrs.
Freeman, Miss Carlotta Thornton, Miss
A. c. Balch and many others.
A letter from Mr.. Gregory Perkins.
secretary of the board Of trade, ac-
cepting with thanks an invitation to the
members of that organization to view