Bisbee daily review., 1910-11-15
DISEASES ARE |. PHOTOGRAPHED
 WITH AN x-RAY
Physicians of Copper Queen Hospital Make Interesting Study of Beneficial System of Treating

OI if0dtlIlS
 Within the past few days a num- Der of very interesting x-ray photo graphs have been taken at the Cop
 per Queen hospital. These photo graphs show tuberculosis. cancer and pneumonia. The pictures of the tuberculosis patient showed plainly tent of the di sease in the patients lungs. One of the physicians of the Copper Queen stan was asked by Review reported to give an ac- count of the possibility of showing the lesions of tuberculosis by means of the X-ray. He said:
 The new possibilities of taking pictures of the soft tissues of the body, such as the lungs and the
 stomach and intestines, are mostly
 due to Dr. Coles of New York City. When he announced 10 some
 of his medical friends that he could show tuberculosis by a photograph. they did not believe him. He be gan by taking photographs of par tients in the tuberculosis wards of some of the hospitals. The lungs of some of these patients who died were examined and also photo graphed again. The pictures showed the actual conditions of the lungs. Profiting by this success, the doc tor was soon able to classify the various forms of tuberculosis and could show those afflicted with the disease just what portions of their lungs were affected but best of all he could tell them whSe type or consumption they had-you know there are various forms of the dis ease, some worse than others-and it could be told them whether their case was one favorable for a cure or not. The next step was the great one. which was the ability to locate tuberculosis in the earliest stage-often before it could be Iocat' ed by listening to the lungs with the stethescope. It was generally conceded that advance stages ot the disease could be photographed by this time, but Dr. Coles frienos anu the medical profession failed to De ueye that the beginning of the dis ease could be shown by a picture Dr. Co,es then suggested that some of the ablest physicians make diasnosis of some patients whom they merely suspected of having tuberculosis. and that they make their diagnosis in writing and hle them away for a few months, ana that he would take an X-ray pic ture of these patients and hie his report with the others, and tnal the same patients be examined In few weeks or months. The idea was to proye that the earliest stages Of the disease which could not be To- cated with the stethescope, could be located by a photograph, and could later. as the disease progressed be then heard with the stethescope-
 Tt is now a common occurrence to advise a patient to seek a sult- able climate upon the findings or
 an X-ray picture before the disease has made much of an advance.
 "WuI this have any effect upon treating tuberculosis?' was ashed oJ the reporter.
 "Weu that is hard to say. II IS To. value for a person with tuoer c,,lesis to have a record oi the eA- | ,or, of his disease-and every lew l ,oonths he can see with his owh ayes the rapidity with which he IS i ,a,,in1 well or not. It is Of great or vame for a person to be aoie to L,o,,, whether or not he Is anhcted with tuberculosis in it's Deg'hniae | and what form of the disease he has" .,,,,
 .s,s tuherculosis ever treated ~'th
 the x-ray. like cancer? was asAeo
 ~No. not that I know Of
 ! .can cancer be shown ID sne
 s.ma way as tuberculosis!
 .y.s cancer of the stomacn anu ...a,;nes can be shown in it's be- ginning Suppose you had o ming cancer of the stomacn- '.s 1 vo,,,d be given some bismnth
 come food and picture wouio oe l immediately taken a,en
 "When a picture of bone IS
 several seconds exposure gise
 ter p,cture. When a picture Q. .n.
 s.omach is taken. it is done ainos'
 instsntaneously. As soon as food is
 in the stomrch, the muscles oi ne
 s,orars, begin to contract, and "ne'' n,srutb n in the stomach, the con ,-actsons are shown as sort of VIII kle of the stomach wall. If several I n,ctures are quietly taken these
 wrinkles are shown at various parts
 of the stomach
 -Enolgh pictures are taken to show
 the wrinkles at every portion of the ] wall of the stomach. Now suppose |. you mad "a beginning cancer-that {, mart of the well of the stomach would mot wrinkle. It would behave just as an automobile tire would if 1t had
 a thick, patch upon it and if par tiaIly filled with air, it were twisted