The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-12-15

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wnile operating, he contracted blood
poisoning, and. this, It was believed,
leo TO the cancer which caused his
death. !is-I n -. ~ 80
A fortnight atterward. Dr. Seneca
Powell, one Of the best-known pro-
lessons Of medicine in the y United
states, and teacher In the New
york Post Graduate School Of Medi-
MassPecame victim of his daring
H4ns into carbolic acid pois-
On So, s1rss years illness. Re-
liev!hssssr salcohoi could be be
poisoning: foweli made rem renestad at,d
experiments on himself to test his
theory for the benefit Of the world.
HIS heroic experiments were said 70
have undermined his constitution. and
ne died martyr to science.
Prof. Currie, who, with his wife.
won place in the history of science
as the dfscoverer OF radium, was per-
maps saved from martyrs lingering
death by the street accident which
cut short his life. His journey to
London, with the first tube of radium
ever exhibited, resulted in a wound
IN the chest which took months to
heal, for the radium emanation pass
ed through his waistcoat and under
clothes and burned his chest, to the
bone. His experiments with radium
scorched his hands and arms, which
were practically paralyzed to the ell
bows and rendered unpresentable to
the eyes of strangers.
Deaths In America.
In America the early history of the
Roentgen rays was marked by the
death of two men. One was Clarence
Daily, chief assistant to Mr.. Edison.
and the other was DR.. Louis Weigel.
of New York.
For seven years Mr.. Daily was q
martyr to dermatitis, caused by the
exposure of his hands and arms to
the rays. A cancerous growth de-
veloped on his left arm, the lower
part Of which had to be amputated.
His hair died off,. Four fingers of his
right hand had to be taken of and
finally his right arm followed. But
It was of no avail, and in September,
1904, his life paid the penalty of his
devotion to science.
The sufferings Of DR.. Hall Edwards,
Of Birmingham, who has had both
hands destroyed by the Roentgen
rays; Of Mr.. Cox, who In February of
this year underwent. second opera
ton In consequence Of his early ex-
periments, and of other X-ray expert
menters. have been described during
the past three or four years. DR..
Cecil Lyster, of the Middlesex Hospi-
tai Finsen light department, is one of
the men who have been MANNED for
life A. the price of their work in the
cause Of science.
Tropical Fever Victim.
sThs name Of DR.. Macatier Pirrie,
who made two expeditions along the
course Of the Nile for the study of
tropical fever, is recorded as that of
q victim Of scientific research. DR..
Pirrie went to the far ends Of the
Bar-el-ehazal and to the borders of
Abyssinfa, penetrating some of the
most deadly areas. He came home
stricken with the disease which he
was seeking to eradicate. Although
ne wrote a paper for the British asso-
citation. he was too Ill to read 1t be-
fore that assembly, and he died when
he was only % years old.
DR.. Dutton, of the Liverpool School
of Tropical Medicine, was 20 years
old when he died of tick fever, con.
tracted while trying to elucidate its
effects on man.
Many. diseases have striken down
the men who fearlessly faced them.
Two years ago, during an outbreak Of
spotted fever in Rome. DR.. Zampag-
mani, while tending some of the VIC
tins, contracted the disease, and, with
death striding toward him. he, sat
down and wrote a treatise on the fever
which before long proved fatal to him.
At Turin, DR.. Giuseppe Bosso ex-
perimented with tubercle bacilli,
which he developed in the university
laboratory. He became infected with
the very bacilli he had grown, and his
name also is inscribed on the roll Of
martyrs to science.