Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-09-14
ADVANCE I'M SURGERY.
TIL. lays Are Working Revolution In
Medicine.


The development Of the new Roent-
gen photography in medicine and sur
gerry continues at an almost incredible
rate. Many Of the latest reports from
Europe read like cable canards, but the
CorroDoratlve "details and confrmatory
mass CT particulars are enough 10 con-
vince the most sheptical. The greatest
interest ccnters now in the hospital or
laboratory, devoted exclusively to cases
IN which the X rays are used, which
has been established in Berlin by Pro
fe scr Buka of the Berlin Polytechnic
ILL., Professor Buka himself is q scien-
tic expert VINO is peculiarly fitted to
undertake this enterprise, since it was
be who discovered that all objects pene
trable By the X rays become transparent
to the human eye by the aid Of a
Crooke's tube and screen smeared
with barium cyanide.
An important new phase of Roentgen
photography is also reported from Mu
Mich AT the international psychologist
congress now being held there an appa-
ratus of special design was used which
enabled the spectators to observe clearly
the action of the diaphragm and heart
of a subject. Just as photography has
succeeded in reproducing life motion by
means of the kaleidoscope, vitascope and
clnemetograph, so the hitherto invisible
action of the internal organs may here
after be observed. Not only that, but
by the present process these Roentgen
ray photographs might be taken fast
enough to insure their reproduction on
a screen. The children of the next gen.
Grafton may thus study anatomy in the
most realistic fashion. AS Professor
Buka himself has been quoted as declar-
ing, "Skiagraphy is still in its tallow
candle stage What will it be when it
reaches its electric light era?
AS for the purely medical aspect of
its development, it is now stated, ac-
cording to the report of MN. Lor-
tet and Genoud to the French academy
of sciences, that tuberculosis is affected
by the X rays They inoculated eight
guinea pigs with tuberculosis virus, and
exposed three of them to the rays for an
hour daily during eight weeks. The five
which were kept from the rays developed
assesses, and their health was derang-
ed. The three kept in good health and
grew fat on the rays. The effect of or
in the past, but with far from such a
decisive result. The Roentgen rays burn
the human skin itself like sunlight, and
even destroy the hair.
Another curious extension of the use
CT these rays is the discovery by Pro
fessors Grumbach and Du Bots Raymond
OF Berlin that they will not only photo
graph the invisible bones Of the body,
but also some of the softer parts as well.
By means CT improved tubes these two
scientists have succeeded IN revealing
the larynx and the diaphragm. The doc
tor Of tomorrow will evidently have no
need for diagnosis All that Will lie
necessary for him TO do will be TO pull
out his little Roentgen snap shot camera
and present to the patient indisputable
ocular evidence CT the precise ailment.
Gases Of wrong diagnosis Will be rare
indeed. Even the exact causes of dys-
pepsia will be revealed at glance, and
nobody viii reed to be apprehensive
about Grpel dlcitis or in dread doubt as
TO tie ned cf the surgeon S horrifying
knife. h-Iadelphia RECORD.