Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-29

head trifle after being fixed, the doctor has
found.
The other day he met an exception at the
other extreme A woman patient had so re-
sponsive neck and remained in place per-
fectly that the doctor looked down at her
hand to confirm his deduction that she was
married. To his surprise she wore no rings.
He told her about his little experiments and
explained that she was a very unusual type.
She laughed and said that she was an artist.
She knew what he wanted, because she was
used to posing models.
There is only one amusing thing about hav-
ing an X-ray picture taken of a stomach, and
that is the penny. In taking such picture
it is necessary to locate and mark the indi-
viduaPs stomach exactly before the plate can
be made. The position of the stomach varies
in different persons, and for guide penny
is sometimes fastened on the body with bit
of adhesive. Occasionally the doctor will for
get to remove this apparatus, and there are
some interesting reactions.
The Mysterious Penny
One man wrote back to the doctor to say
that the penny had come off. He added that
he had worn it two weeks and it had done
him no good whatever. Another patient, a
woman, returned the coin in some embarrass-
ment, believing tha6 she had somehow taken
a coin that did not belong to her. She ex-
planned that the doctor would no doubt be as
surprised as she was to know that penny
/ had in some mysterious way got attached to
her. She supposed it must have happened at
the hospital, and as she was sure it did not
belong to her she wished to return it.
X-rays are now recognized as successful
means of removing tonsile and of treating
goiter and diseased tissues in the nose and
throat. Before this method was put into use
there was always difficulty in getting the i'm
migrant mother to have her child operated
on for diseased tonsils.
Understanding no English, and alarmed by
Tho - S~,@o fbn how
was fearful that her childs throat was to be
cut. The promise that her sons health was
to be improved by an operation performed at
the expense of the city did not reassure her.
With the X-ray such cases are being han
died easily. The rays are painless. In fact,
any one who did not see the apparatus would
not know treatment was being given. The
child can be brought to the hospital and its
mother assured that he is not to be touched
by knife. The child is laid table and
the rays strike up from under the table
through place especially prepared. The
mother sits by the patient and holds his hand
and in less than half an hour the treatment
is over. After several treatments the ton
sils are gone.
One of the latest experiments with X-rays
is in connection with diphtheria carriers. The
dlphther1a carrier goes about, unconscious
that his tonsils, nose, and ear passages reek
with germs and that he is giving the dis
ease to his more susceptible friends. There
are a great many of these carriers and they
are not responsible for the danger they carry.
In one city, Detroit, doctor is making a Sc
res of tests to determine whether X-ray
treatments will rid these persons of the diph-
liberia germs permanently. We are told that
eleven out Of fifteen tonsil cases, two out of
four ear cases, and four out of five nasal
cases were cured by X-ray treatments.
The doctor is continuing his treatments,
but he is chiefly interested in knowing how
long the immunity is going to last.