The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-04

light, Can sunlight be treated in any way to rob 1t Of Shose properties? Is it lacking in these properties before It en- ters our atmosphere?
 There is a possibility that the dis covery of the peculiar properties Of the force from the negative elecrode in the Crookes tubes may reveal new knowl- edge as to the origin of sunlight, Every new fact relating to light, electricity and magnetism, brings us nearer to the comprehension of the great processes of nature How much the force from the Crookes tubes is to add to the sum of human knowledge can only be guessed at present, But 8 great field is open to the bold inquirer who shall push his experiments in every conceivable dlrec- tion."
 The Chicago News jocosely remarks regarding the Rontgen discovery: '"The rest of the human family should draw the line on that fellow Rontgen and his dark light He is pushing science en- tirely too far It is a question, indeed, whether science is any good anyhow. In it's name the most destructive liber- ties have been taken with our dearest illusions for hundreds of years. Now comes this man Rontgen with a dark light which penetrates opaque sub stances. He uses it in photography so that man may have a picture of his own skeleton and his admirers advise us that the dark light will soon be made serviceable to the naked eye, so that a man will see into his foot or through his neighbors coat. This would make life simply intolerable. What would be left of social intercourse if your companion at the dinner table might at any moment tap your arm and say: Pardon me, sir, but I see that your liver is becoming overheated.' In a word, the dark light would overthrow the philosophy of clothes and so destroy | society Away with it!''
 Yesterdays Boston Herald devotes a large part of a page to the subject, in which it quotes the views of Professor Trowbridge at the Jefferson physical | laboratory at Harvard, of Professor Dolbear at Tufts, and of others includ- | ing Dr. Richardson of Boston and pr. | Councilman of Harvard medical school "Dr. Richardson" it says, "has been much interested in the reports of the discoveries and the confrmatory experf- ments conducted by Professor Trow- | bridge, of Harvard, and Professor A. w. | Wright of the Sloan Physical labora- | tory at Yale As for this cathode rays | matter, granted the thing, then one may | consider possibilities. One has not to | look far to see how it's practical apph- cation may prove of great value to sur- 1 gery in searching for bullets embedded 1 in the flesh, as has been suggested I can see other exigeneies where it's value would manifest itself. If by this means tumors can be detected Professor Ront- gen has done great deal for humanity and for the benefit of medical science"
 A leading physiologist said: T be- lieve that the cathode picture will show the presence of any foreign substance that may become lodged in any animal body, possibly even 50 minute an ob- 1 ject as a needle
 Further, am convinced that it will. as claimed, show the presence of a stone in the bladder or q tumor on the brain; it is not unlikely, think, that by it certain affections of certain tis- sues may be detected"