The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-08-12
AFRAID OF x-RAYS,
EDISON ABANDONS SEARCH
FOR FLUORESCENT LAMP.
Daily Put His Head to the Light
Which Caused His Hair and
Mustach to Fall of-Edi-
son Nearly Becomes
Blind from Effects
of the Light.
(NEW YORK WORLD.

(NEw YORK WORLD.
That loss of sight, cancerous dis
ease and even death may come to
him who is continuously exposed
to or mex peiienced in the euse of Ro-
entgen rays has been demonstrated
in pitiahle n anr er in the labora-
tory of Thomas A. Edi on at Orange
N. J. Clarence Daily, an assist
an. TO the ''Wlzard of Menlo park"
has contributed an arm and hand
to this demonstration, while Mr..
Edison himself suffers from the dis
turbed focus of one of his eyes
through experiments with this mys-
terious light in an endeavor to find
for it some commercial utility.
The chief sufferer, Daily. who has
wife and two boys to take care of,
| is left to depend entirely upon the
generosity Of Mr.. Edison, in whose
interests, supplemented by an en-
thueiastic desire to delve deeper in
that mysterious force which brings
to view objects concealed in solid
matter, he,has been incapacitated
from taking up the life burdens and
duties that usually fall to man.
Ths story of Clarence Daily is
best told by DR.. w. B. Graves, one
of the leading surgeons of New Jer-
sey, who was seen by " orld rep.
resentative in his cottage on Main
street, East Orange, yesterday af
ternoon. He says:
4 "Carence Daily came to me near
lily seven years ago." said DIR.
Graves, "and / wish to say in the
beginning that / regard him mar
tyr to science. He is SO regarded
by the medical profession general
lly, for not one cent has ever been
charged him for either surgical or
medical services. He presents to
science pitiable object-lesson OF
the dangers of inexperienced or con-
tinuous experiments with x rays
and his sutferings have done more
to bring to professional notice q
correct knowledge of things to be
avoided than anything else in the
history of scientific research upon
this subject.
DAILY was a wiry chap, as hard
as nails; little fellow, but speci
men of perfect manhood when be
left the United States navy, in
which he had been chief gunner's
mate, 10 take up the practical
study of X. rays, because they fas.
cinated him. When he came to me
seven years ago it was because his
regular physician thought he need.
ed surge on. He had been follow.
ing his hobby, enthusias tically ano
had been testing tubes in the Edi
sen laboratory, exposing himstl If te
the forcible light with an utter dis
regard to himself.
I'm the beginning bis hair begar
to fall out and his face began te
wrinkle. Then dermatatis, or in
famma ton of the skin, set in, an6
manifested itself in sore On the
back of his left hand. This wal
caused, be told me by placing j
between the Horoscope and the x
ray tube, in order that the lattel
might be thoroughly tested, or per
haps by the light falling upon hi
hand as it passed the aange of th'
instrument as he held it. Their
was no sensation of acute pain, only
a soreness and numbness. Ii
other words he had used his OWL
person continuously to test tn
tubes. He was doctored CAREFUL,
with view to curing the skin dis
ease upon the back of his hand, bu
lit grew worse instead of better, al
methods of treatment failing to in
duence it. Then artefio sclerosis
or thickening or hardening of tn
arteries set in, and this exsende.
even to the most minute blood YES
. sci in his arm.
''There was no paralysis, but tn
drying up of the blood vessels tool
away the nourishment from the tbs
sues and prevented the sore on hi
left hand from healing. The righ
hand was also affected. even to th
: finger tips, but it was not in so Sc
rious condition as the left.
"The trouble in his left hand fin
ally developed into skin cancer
and the whole arm, away up abov
the elbow, as well into the biceps
: was affected.
1.-TWO years ago this arm was am