Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-03-27
ROENTGEN X-RAYS..
Three American COnSulS Report
On the Discovery.
PUT TO PRACTICAL USE.
Army Surg StucYlng it-Consul
Monaghan Tells How an Acct
dent Led Keen-Eyed Professor


Roentgen on TO Success.
Three United States consuls have for
warded TO the State Department at Washing-
ton reports upon the Roentgen discovery III
photography. Consul-General do Kay, d"
Berlin speaks Of the discovery as one WHICH
may profoundly effect surgery and medlcine
in the way of diagnosing tumors, protuDer-
ances in bones and foreign growths IN INC
flesh. as well as bullets or other substances
in the bodies Of men or animals IL IL ilAeiy
also that the discovery will in time enapie
us to examine the interior OF tools, machln'
ery and othor objects Of wood and metal, so
as to guard against danger through haws OF
errors in casting.
"With the electric light from air-exhausted
receivers. Professor Roentgen has photo-
graphed through the flesh and through paste-
board, tin and wood, and also through many
layers of paper. One popularity OF Professor
Roentgen's visible rays is that they pass
through many other substances, and even, 10
a certain extent through metals. Another
very singular property they are said 10 pos
sess-they do not refraet when passing
through water or through prism oil glass or
crystal. 1t is supposed that they must move
In a manner quite different from that oil tne
other or light rays OF electricity, and per-
hans on some unknown element OF matter
Owing to the absence of refraction they are
thought to move straight forward, not IN
waves. like ordinary light. 1t is too early 10
more than outline the results and prospects
of this discovery.
WHAT WITNESS SAYS:
Consul Monaghan. at Chemnitz. has some
wonderful information obtained through an
eyewitness to the experiments. lie says In
bis report: Professor Roentgen takes
Croo.es pipe-a very strong vacuous glass
pipe-through which goes an induction
stream, and photographs, by means OF rays
that are sent out fro the pipe, on ordinary
Photographic plates. These rays, whose eS-
lstence was never suspected till now, are in
visible to the human eye. They penetrate
woods. organic matter and otherwise Opaque
substances. The papers claim that they Will
not penetrate iron or metals. but my intorm-
ant who attended the meetings where the
experiments we're made, assures me that tno
rays were put through three inches OF hard
rubber. and carried a good photograph to
plates on the other side: also. through "
centimetre iron plate. Like 50 many great
things. the discovery owes its origin to acci-
| MI with
a Crookes pipe around which he had wrapped
some stuff. He ran strong electric current
through the pipe, and noticed later some
lines on prepared paper-sucl as he had
never noticed before--by electrical expert
ments The keen-eyed scientist studied out
this line. suspected its cause. experimental
and obtained this marvellous discovery.
USED IN BONE DISEASES.
Consul Chancellor, at Havrc, tells Of the
experiments which the French physicians
have been making with the RoentgSn dis
covery. "a report on the experiment. be
saws. "kas been read before the Paris Acai-
envy of Sciences by Professor Launelonge.
who is convinced that the discovery made by
! the BayGrian scientist will be OF great uss
and IMPORTANCE to the medical faculty. One
of the exhibits produced by Professor Laune-
longe was the photograph oi the hand oil
child ofllcted with tuberculosis in the bones
The internal condition of the limb was re-
produced and exactly corresponded with the
diagnosis given 10y Professor Launelonge,
who had examined the child before tho
Roentgcn discovery was known in France.
stronger testimony as to the value Oh
Professor Roentgen's discovery comes from
the University of Mont Peller. Three medl'
cal lecturers connected with that institution
have succeed in photographing 5-frane
piece which was placed inside purse and
had four folds OF leather between 1t and tho
apparatus. The form Of the money came
out distinctly and on the Photographic plate
and 30, too, did tho shape and texture OF the
interior lining Of the purse.
News from Berlin says the German minis
ter OF war has taken the necessary steps Tor
introducing the discovery at once into The
surgical department OF the army, In order
that it may be thoroughly studied for use In
time OF war; series OF negatives already
taken In Berlin of gunshot wound have an
accurate impression Of the lesion ofthe BONE
and enabled the surgeon to determine With
precision the exact location OF the projectile.