The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-22

Una. .o had come up; yet here is the dis
90 the same ray without artificial
,rso raw as nature provides it. 1t is
''u' .r,roental yet, but positive, and there
he a step In a few days so important
NC. .oreervatives hesitate to speak Of 1t.
.o towards a naSural cure and the
- If natures elixir of life. When the
l'1 uas found, enthusiasts declared
-.ora all the recent modern discov-
'na If electricity and lighting science
sa,ont away and the X-ray left, the world
I'D still be none the loser. The X-ray
.so5 in Importance all other discover
- modern times. Its medicinal prop
49,. .Ione would be of boundless benefit
81 to man.
within a short time the x-ray has been
.oninulated so as to show not only the
B ,nas in the human body, but the viscera
,.s,r the inmost organs. 1t has been fixed
.,ob q manner that the smallest foreign
ut,o,es have been located, and so man
- that the different bones and parts
.5ow m with degree of faithfulness that
t.us whether they are bone or flesh, mus
=. ~ vein. or some foreign body. At first
+be mistiness of the photograph left
great deal to imagination.
d The horoscope, Edison's instrument for
q 6xing upon the eye when doing surgical
work with the X-ray. is now used in near
!, oil HOSPITALS. And In every operating
roor, there is the X-ray camera and the
8 sonsitized plate. A photograph instrument
nos never to be found in an operating
room before the X-ray came in.
But the magic ray is difficult for an
4 ar,ateur TO obtain, and ingenious ones
y have been busy trying to get an easy
x-ray. 1t must be powerful enough to go
through an inch Of aluminium, four inches
of glass and a small thickness of lead.
Prof Emmens, the inventor of emmen-
site. a powerful military explosive, has
brought the X-ray out of sunlight many
times. and claims to have brought it out
of darkness by placing ordinary Prussian
blue on the vulcanite plate-hold, and
next to the sensitive film
But all operators are not inventors Of
emmensite, and for actual and frequent
use the X-ray must be more easily pro-
duced.
DR.. Dawson Tucker, a British scientist
much interested in the X-ray and the
means of making it practicable for many
walks of life and many diverging pro-
LESSONS, has been looking around for
months to find a good, easily obtainable
X-ray. He wanted something that could
be used without a camera and would
penetrate substances as deeply as the ray
Of Dr. Roentgen.
One day in looking around for bright,
luminous substances, DR.. Tucker happen
ed TO spy a glow worm. This small in
sect was emitting peculiar white light
tnat caught the eye from great dis
lance and held 1t fixed while the glow
lasted. 1t was a peculiar fluorescent
Agnt that seemed to emit more rays than
any other light he had ever seen in ma
ture.
The daylight" of Messrs. Edison and
Tesla had long attracted the doctor. And
Adlson recent claim that he had found
hght that is u per cent. energy-in other
woius an artihcial light almost as bright
as tne sun-occurred to the searching doc
Tor at once. And it seemed to him that
mere all theories had found naturalization.
Catcning the insect, he had the greatest
diihculty in making it glow. 1t was a fe-
male worm, with rings around its body,
ana without the wings of the male glow
worm suddenly 1t turned on its brilliant
AsHt, and the effect was as dazzling to the
eyes OF the doctor as to a little child.
franklin discovered electricity by fly
ing Kite, and this scientist scented a dis
voVery by watching a worm. Taking the
ntue thing In his hands, he went to his
horary, and there set up a sensitized plate.
10 rake an X-ray, It must here be ex-
plained, II is not necessary to have cam
era IA senutive plate, such as can be
uDl2ined Of any dealer, and suitable
picture
Setting up his sensitized plate and put
uag an inkstand back of 1t, the doctor
he!d aloft the glow-worn. It began spark
Eng to such an extent that he begrudged
Tie space his fingers obtained, and, tying
srlhg around the worm, he held it In
'front.' of the plate.
In working with an X-ray 1t is best to
wear glasses. The bright light makes the
eyes water and may injure them If the
exposure Is long one. Putting on big
palI OF smoked glasses, the doctor held
s9lt thelittle worm in front of the plate.
aW twenty minutes he made the expos
The result exoaaAaa oil axnac+a tions
WI only was the ink within the bottle
SHOWN, but the drops upon the inside,
qua all imperfectlons in the bottle which
was or composition substance. He pho
twsIaphed a ring in cake of soap and a
.naIukerchlef In a lady's handbag. Spec
oaoIes In their cases were easily taken"
e,iu ne went on from more and more
tSpuque substances to lead Itself Here
,n Hot the delicate impression so far OBJ
'1 mid by the X-ray from thin lead.
,, me difficulty in getting the worms to
gov, affected the experiments. But it
,""s next found that the glow worm af-
.yeOeu the plate even when not visibly
etsoMlng' The PHOSPHORUS, or the light,
~ Whatever quality II may be, exists con-
a.. upon the insect, and will act as
VI A-ray at any time.
o5Doctors and all people interested In the
iou.aneement Of science are regretting the
n aug stupidity Of the ages that never in
> oueu INTO these brilliant lights; and as
discoveries are made to make the
f. 10y more and more simple the greater
TSLheir chagrin and delight.
ne erect of the glow-worm held In
80 OF The sensitized plate wnen n pa
s siruS is to be photographed is precisely
tiaIar to DR.. Roentgens ray. The pa
TIT tn reels a soothing. quieting effect.
NY, exposure In case of an abscess In the
80, lou was forty-five minutes. but the pa
M curing that time lay perfectly quiet,
o "th inc head strapped down and with
~ Y any inconvenience. He said the X
soothed him and made him drowsy.
G. Is the same with the foot. When