The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-10-05
Y RAY APPARATUS DOES GOOD
PRACTICAL WORK.
Patients at the Queens Hospital are
Being Put Under the Rays-Purvey-
or Eckhardt's Experiments.

There has been exhibited before the
Health Board some y ray pictures
They are the work of John T. Eckardt
spurveyor of the Queens Hospital.
When the y ray apparatus arrived
at the hospital some little time ago,
there was no one to take up the ex-
periments. Mr.. Eckhardt took it up
and by dint of hard study and numer-
Gus experiments he has scored very
great success.
The purveyor has devoted his opera
tions solely to practical work in the
hospital His efforts have been
great aid to the house physicians and
surgeons, as the pictures have enabled
them to get at the seat of trouble.
Among the finest PIECES of work is
a picture taken by rurveyor Eckhardt
of his own haud His many expert
ments previous to this work, had
taught him the most advantageous pc
riod for exposure and the best bate
ry strength for obtaining clear results
and then again he knew how to pose
his own hand on the negative better
and more steadily than patient.
In this picture is plainly shown the
grooves and indentures in the bones
of the fingers.
Among the most prominent of the
pictures taken for practical use is one
showing a dislocation and fracture in
the arm of daughter of Clarence
| White The bone is shown as clear
and plain to the eye as if the skin and
flesh had been removed. and one were
! looking right at the live bonet The
recovery of Miss White is due largely
I tn h. e;gtn nf
! One of the first practical exhibitions
was the broken leg of a Japanese Ia
| borer. employed on one of the plan
I tations on this island. The picture
was a success and enabled the surgeon
to locate the broken bone much more
| eXpeditiously than by any other way.
| The apparatus was applied to
| fractured bone in the leg of girl
brought from one of the other Islands.
I John McLain, the blacksmith, had
been occasionally bothered with a
sharp pain in one of his fingers. He
thought there was piece of steel in
it. and one day went to the hospital
to determine. In the picture that was
| taken was shown a bit of foreign subj
stance lodged directly against the
bone. Mr.. McLain had the substance
|
1t was a sharp piece of steel.
just recently a young lad, who has
limped for several years, had the X
ray turned on his foot. 1t was dis
covered that he had broken bone.
The young man had no idea how the
accident happened, but as he was
foot ball enthusiast. the blame was
laid at the door of this gentle game.
These are only few of the MAJ"
exhibitions which Purveyor Eckha"dt
has made.
The purveyor has set apa"' ,H~ge
room ON the second floor of ~" hos
pital for this work. 1t is eNGdctl with
| heavy curtains and is well adanted
for an ray work room. He has diff
ferent sizes of Crooke's tubes. j. ].
Williams, the photographer, develops
the pictures,
An apparatus which looks very
much like the covering of small
| typewriter. is another very interest
ing instrument in the purveyor's work
room. This is the Fluorescent screen
1t is constructed on the style of the
old camera obscura. One looks
through the eye glass on to the screen
which is chemically prepared paper.
The object is held on the outside of
this screen. When an arm or hand is
held to view the bones can be plainly
seen. The rays will pierce through
several books held together and the
bores of the hand can be seen when
held behind the books. the light pen
etrating on through to the bone. pic
turing it out on the screen.