The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-10-30

s~earchcs7 Do not talk any moro q
even think any more about it,"
Il beg your pardon. M. Ginory. On
can and ought to think about 1T. I,
any case / ar thinking about IT."
A smile Of doubt crossed M. Ginory
lips. Bcrnardct quickly added: "Phe
Biography of the invisible has bee
the famous X-rays, as incredible 9
that photography can find the image 4
q murder on the retina OF q dead pei
sons eye: They invent some FOOLS
things. those Americans. but they ofte
presage the Truth. Do they not cate
dying? DO they not fix upon the fill
or on plates that mysterious thin
which halnts is. the occult? The
throw bridges across unknown abysse
as over great bodies of water or frol
one precipice to another and they reac
monsieur" And the police office
stopped short IN his enthusiastic de
fcllse as he caught sight OF NJ. Ginory'
astonished face. II seem to have bee
making a speech, a thing l detest."
Why do you say that to me? Be
cause ] looked astonished at what 20
have told me? l an. not only surprised
1 ;l1Il cnaTIneO. NO on, go On!' II
"Oh. well. what seemed folly yester
day will he an established fact tomor
row.. a fact is a fact. DR.. Nernois haa
better have tested again and agar hi
contradictory experiments. DR.. Bou.
rion's experiments had preceded hi
own. If DT. verncds saw nothing in tn,
picture taken OF the retina of the ey
1868. 1 have seen sornething--yes, .
have seen with a magnifying glass
while studying thoroughly the proc.
given to the society and reproduced ii
the bulletin of volume 1. No. 9. of 1870
I have seen d%ectphered the image q
which DR.. Bourbon saw n which Or
Vernois did not sec. All. 1t was con
fused; the proof was hazy. It va
scarcely recognizable. I confess, bu
there are mirrors which are not Yer,
clear and which reflect clouded vision
nevertheless the image is there. And
have seen, or Via n calls seen, til
phantom of the murderer which %
Bourbon saw and which escaped til
eyes OF the member Of the Academy I
Medicine and OF the hygiene counc
honorary physician of the hospital. B.
@ please.
NJ. Ginory. who had listened to til
cmcer with curiosity. began to laue
n remarked to Bernardet that, az
cordtng to his reasoning, illustrate
medical science would find itself sacr-
feed to tie instinct. the divlnation ,f
g provincial physician, and that it WIS
only too easy to put the academicias
in the wrong and the independents n
tho right.
oh, monsieur. pardon. I put no ole
In the right or wrong. DR.. Bourbon b-
lievcd that he had made q discover.
Vernois was persuaded that q.
Bourbon q discovered nothing at al.
Each had the courage of his convt-
ton. What l contest Is that for rs
years no one has experimental, no ole
experiment.. and h a DR.. Bourionns
communication has been simply droI-
ped and forgotten"
Il ask your pardon In my turn, Be-
nardet," replied NJ. Glnory, a little
qu~izzically. Il have also studied the
question, which seems to me a cur
Have o photographed any your
self, M: Ginory"
"Ah! There is where the proof is"
But in 1877 the very learned doyen
II Academy OF Medicine. M. Brou-
ardel. whose great wisdom and whose
those men who are an honor to their
country, told me that when he was in
Heidelberg he had heard Professor,
Kuhn say that he had studied this
same question. He had made impress
of the retina of the eye in the fol-
lowing cases: After the death of a dog
or wolf he had taken out the eye and
replaced 1t with the back part of the.
eye In front; then he took a very strong
light and placed it in front Of the eve.
and between the eye and the light he
placed a small grating. This grating.
after an exposure of a quarter OF an
hour. was visible upon the retina. But
those are very different experiments
from those one hears OF in America"
"They could see the bars In the graf
ing? II that was visible, why could not
the visage OF the murderer be found
there?"
Eth! Other experiments have been
attempted. even after those of which
Professor Kuhn told our compatriot.
Every one, o understand. has borne
only negative results, and NJ. Brouardel
tell you better than I that In the
physiological and oculistic treatises
published during the last ten years no
has been MADE to the preserya-
tion of the image on the retina after
death. 1t is an affair classe HERNIA
det."
"Ah. monsieur, yet And the no.
lice officer hesitated. Shaking hts head.
he again repeated. "Yet-yet"-
You are not convinced?"
NO, NJ. Ginory, and shall l tell YOU
You, yourself. in spite of the
testimony of illustrious sayants still
doubt. l pray you to pardon me, but /
see 1T In our eyes"
That is still another way to use the
retina," said Ginory. laughing. you
read ones thoughts"
(Continued Next Week.l