St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-13
PROCESS BY WHICH OBJECTS ARE
PHOTOGRAPHED THROUGH
OPAQUE SUBSTANCES.
PHYSICIANS ARE INTERESTED.
CLOSELY REPORTS OF
RECENT EXPERIMENTS WITH
ROENTGEN,s DISCOVERY.
TALK WITH SOME MEDICAL MEN.
In General They Are Inclined to Be-
ieve the Scientific World Has
Made Hit.

Local physicians, scientists and pho
tographers are following, with close
attention, the accounts Of the recent
experiments with Roentgen's new pho
tographic process, by which objects
are photographed through Opaque SUBJ
stances. The physicians are vitality
interested, inasmuch as the new dis
covery bids fair to prove Of incalcu-
liable value to the medical profession.
The newspapers of the country have
already informed the people of the ex-
periments now being conducted by
Thomas A. Edison, and Of his inten-
ton to photograph the brain Of a live.
healthy man, in spite of the skull that
1nterveneS between the brain and the
lens Of the camera. The latest reports
tell the result of an experiment in Chi
cago which seems to demonstrate the
ability OF the new process, inasmuch
as photograph Of an injured hand
revealed it's whole anatomy and dis
closed the location of buckshot i'm
bedded in the mans hand two years
previous, but which no physician had
found it possible to locate.
AS a result of the interest of local
scientists and physicians in this mat
ter, 1T is probable that experiments
will be conducted here soon, possibly
in the course of a fortnight. The lab
oratory of the state university will
doubtless be the scene of the expert
mentS.
A number of physicians and photog
raphers who were seen yesterday eX-
pressed their desire to witness the eX-
periments with the process. At pres
ent they could not discuss the subject,
as their knowledge of the matter was
confined exclusively to what they had
read in the newspapers.
DR.. Justus Ohage, who has paid
close attention to all that the daily
papers have printed on the subject,
said:
"I am confident that Roentgen has
results of the experiments were as re-
ported. The experiments of Mr.. Ed
ison, and also the most recent expert
ments in Chicago, substantiate the
results claimed by Mr.. Roentgen in
Vienna. No experiments have been
made in st. Paul yet, but [ believe
that they will be conducted at the
state university less than a month
hence. They have every facility there
except, probably the lenses. which
will be sent for"
City Physician Ancker said: ST do
not know any more about the new
process than 1 have read in the news
papers. All I can say at this time is
that if the discovery amounts to all
that is claimed for it, it will be a great
boon to the medical profession"
DIR. Albert E. Senkler, while not dis
putting $ae published facts, was in
clined to be skeptical as to the utility
of the new process. ''I doubt" said
Dr. Senkler whether the photograph
of the interior objects, such, for in
stance, as the anatomy of the hand,
the bones, muscles, ETC., would be any
thing more than a shadow, and If that
is the case nothing but the mere out
lines would be revealed, silhouetted as
it were. Still I do not wish to declare
absolute disbelief or belief in the util-
ity Of the discovery until I have per-
sonally witnessed the result of an ex-
pertinent
e. o. Zimmerman, the photograph er,
said that he was anXiously awaiting
local experiments with the discovery
AS yet he was entirely in the dark re-
garding the creation of the ray Of light
that is said to penetrate totally opaque
substances.
Photographer T. w. Sven said prac-
tically the same thing. He knew Moth
ing of the process except what had
been published in the newspapers.