Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-02-02

cate Bones Perfectly Articulateo,
All the Joints as Clear as If You
Saw the Real Ones, and Ring
Hung Wide on the Middle Finger.
London, February IA great deal
continues to be printed here about the
new Roentgen photography operations,
and the experiments with it by grave
scientists suggest the idea-but chill
dren OF larger growth are tickled by
the new toy-that all the experiments
and developments only show that man
has not begun 10 master the discovery,
which still does as It wants, refusing
10 be trained or perfected.
The pictures taken thus far, though
wonderful in the extreme, are only
shadow prints or sun pictures. All
leave out the substances penetrated by
the new rays and show black shadows
OF impervious objects
We read to-day in the correspondence
from the Continent that Belgium has
already adopted the new process, and
that her government has ordered every
hospital to be supplied with parapher-
MALTA for aiding the surgeons.
With these mysterious pictures bull
lets and other foreign substances in
the flesh and bones OF patients have al
ready been located successfully in in
Vulnerable instances In half the coun-
tries in what we used to consider SLOW
old Europe"
CALCAREOUS DEPOSITS.
Perhaps the most interesting success
thus far attained is that recorded In
the news from Vienna, where calcar-
eOuS deposits in various parts OF the
human system have been marvellous
" exposed. Practically the same thing
has been shown in the photograph OF
mans hand obtained by Campbell
Swinton for one OF the newspapers
here The hand was that Of healthy
man. but shows Sigh prOtuberances at
the middle Joints OF two fingers, where
upon medical men deduced the theory
hat its owner is certain to be a victim
OF govt before many years
SwintOn is now deluged with letters
from medical men who wish to make
use Of the new discovery. One hopes
to find a fshOone in a patients throat;
another hopes 10 trace coin a man
has swallowed, and still another wants
the photographer proof that a pa
tents broken wrist has been badly
set.
All this leads the Chronicle to assert
that we shall soon be living in a
palace CT Truth" with all the dis
comforts set forth in Gilberts play.
Your Skeleton While You Wait"
saws the Chronicle, will be a common
street sign.
A FEARFUL POSSIBILITY.
A Vienna man has already had his
brain photographed and has been I'M
able 10 sleep ever since But much
the best wltticism on the all-engross-
ing subject Is that of the city promoter
who says he intends to have the inven-
ton adopted for use on the camera
and to sell machines at n hundred
guineas $500 each, so that snap shots
N fashionable men and women In Re-
gent street can be taken as if the pc
das'rians left their clothes at home.
What the new invention cannot do is
almost as wonderful az what II will do.
The light of electric current, or rays.
or whatever it is. passes through many
OPAQUE substances, yet refuses to pass
through materials considered transpar-
ent. Wood, carbon. aluminium, ebon-
tie. paper. papier mache, human flesh
and leather are transparent to this
new current. and copper is partially so;
but nearly all metals and bone are
Opaque.
AN ASTONISHING THEORY.
Alfred Binet. the French scientist,
! gummed some metal figures on n thick
sheet Of Cardboard then photographed
it and got a well defined picture Of the
metal figures. He advances the as
tonishing theory that what is possible
TO the new light is made also possible
to human eyes He thinks the eyes
may acquire a new condition under not
impossible circumstances. when. Of
course, such feats as reading dates of
coins and numbers on bank notes
crumpled up in the human hand may be
performed without any trick at all.
TO-day's papers announce that NJ.
Darosnval. the French electrician. has
made an astonishing communication to
the Academy OF Scientists, Of which
he is a member He says that he has
been informed by G. Lebon that II is
quite unnecessary to depend on the I'M
known light Of Crookes's tube. Pho
tographing through Opaque bodies can
be done with ordinary light a para
fin lamp will do #.
LFBON'S DISCOVERY.
VI. Lebon asserts that he has taken
photographs In this manner for several
years. He proceeds as follows: Inside
a box with rather thin sides he places
a sensitved plate behind a negative
In front Of the box he places an iron
plate and on the other side OF the plate
a lamp. After three hours exposure
the Image is found On development
this image is distinct. but If a sheet OF
lead be placed behind the box and
folded mp to touch the iron plate, so as
10 form a metallic shell. the reproduce
ton OF the negative for the same length
of exposure IS quite distinct.
VI. Darsonval adds that this expert
ment cannot be accounted for on any
existing theories ". Lebon ascer-
tanned that the image was not due 10
any phOsphorescent light which might
I have been stored up I'm the negative.
The experiment will not succeed II heat
RAYS only are used.
Prof Neuser. Of Vienna Is preparing
TO photograph the internal organs Of a
living man. He hopes II will not be
long before his patient is saved a great
deal Of physical pain.
LONDON EXPERIMENTS.
The London experiments thus far are