Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-10-30

searches? DO not talk any more or
even hin any more about It"
II beg your pardon, NJ. Ginory. One
can and ought to think about IL. In
any case / am thinking about 1t"
A smile of doubt crossed M. Ginory's
lips. n DEF quickly added: Pho
Biography OF the invisible haa been
proved. Are not the Roentgen rays,
the famous X-rays, as incredible as
that photography can find the image OF
q murder on the retina of a dead per-
sons eye? They invent some foolish
things, those Americans, but they often
presage the truth. Do they not catch
by photography the last signs OF the
dying? Do they not fix upon the film
or on plates that mysterious thing
which haunts us, the occult? They
throw bridges across unknown abysses
as over great bodies OF water or from
n precipice to mother and they reacs
the other side. / beg your pardon
monsieur" And the police officer
stopped short in his enthusiastic de-
fcuse as he caught sight of NJ. Ginory's
~&stoniShed face. II seem to have been
making a speech, a thing I detest.''
Why do you say that to me? Be
cause l looked astonished at what YOU
have told me? l am not only surprised,
| am charmed. Go on, go on"
"Oh, well, what seemed folly yester-
day will be an established fact tomor-
row. A fact is a fact. DR.. Vernois had
better have tested again and again his
contradictory experiments. DR.. Bou-
rion's experiments had preceded his
own. If Or. Vernois saw nothing In the
picture taken of the retina OF the eye
or the woman assassinated June IA.
1868, j have seen something-yes. |
have seen with a magnifying glass.
while studying thoroughly the proof
given TO the society and reproduced in
the bulletin OF volume /, No. 2. OF 1870.
| have seen ~deciphered the image OF
which DR.. Bourbon saw and which Or.
Nernois did not see. All, ii was o n
fused; the proof was hazy. 1t was
scarcely recognizable, I confess, but
there are mirrors which are not very
clear and which reflect Clouded vision:
nevertheless the image is there. And /
have seen, or What n calls seen, the
phantom of the murderer which DIR.
Pourion saw and which escaped the
eyes Oh the member of the Academy OF
Medicine and Of the hygiene council
honorary physician of the hospital, if,
o please.
M. Ginory, who had listened to the
officer with curiosity, began to laugh
and remarked TO Bernardet that. ac-
AoIhAAl6 W AllS lCdSOiliilSs
medical science would find itself sacri-
feed to the instinct. the d~ivlnation OF
a provincial physician, and that III was
only too easy to put the academiclans
in the wrong and the independents in
the right.
oh, monsieur, pardon. | put no one
in the right or wrong. DR.. Bourbon be-
lieved that he had made a discovery.
DR.. Vernois was persuaded hat DR..
Bourbon had discovered nothing at all.
Each had the courage OF his convic-
ton. What / contest is that for 26
years no n has experimental. no one
has made any researches, since the first
experiment, and that DR.. Bourion's
communication has been simply drop
ped and forgotten"
Il ask your pardon in my turn, Ber-
nardet," replied M. Ginory, a little
quizzically. II have also studied the
question, which seems to me a curl-
GUS
Have you photographed any your
self, M. Ginory?"
"Ah! There is where the proof is
But In 1877 the very learned doyen
of the Academy of Medicine. NJ. Brou-
ardel, whose great wisdom and whose
sovereign opinion were law, one of
those men who are an honor to their
country, told me hat when he was in
Heidelberg he nae heard Professor
Kuhne say hat he had studied this
same question. He had made impress
sions 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 it with the back part of the
eye in front then he took a very strong
light and placed it in front of the eye.
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 hat 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 Kuhne told our compatriot.
Every one, you understand, has borne
only negative results. and M. Brouardel
could tell you better than l that in the
physiological n oculistic treatises
published during the last ten years no
allusion has been made to the preserva-
ton OF the image on the retina after
death. 1t is an affair classe, Bernar-
det.'
"Ah, monsieur, yet And the po-
lice officer hesitated. Shaking his head.
he again repeated, "~Yet-yet"-
You are no convinced?'
mo, M. Ginory, and shall l tell you
why? You, yourself. in spite of the
testimony of illustrious %sayants. still
doubt. | pray you TO pardon me, but /
see 1t i'm your eyes"
THAT is still another way to use the
retina," said Ginory, laughing. You
read ones thoughts"
tContinued Next Week.l
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