The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-08

ltosOT W lllldu hOSuAkNug III hAn
laboratory at the University Of
DR.. Clendening will answer
questions Of general interest
only, and then only through
his column.
Wurzburg, accidently found that
the carnations from a vacuum
tube had passed through Opaque
materials and caused q photo
graphic plate to be logged.
About two months later he was
able to photograph, before the
Wurzburg Medical Society, the
bones in the hand Of their Presi-
dent, Professor Kolliker. Those
were in the days when Germany
was really great, great by reason
Of its men Of science and of in
telleet.
Discoveries OF Medicines
OF all the discoveries Of medi-
cine, there is none that is, to me, as
fascinating, as mysterious and as
awe-inspiring. Everything else,
nearly, is sensible and logical. II
you have a fever, it is due to min
ute plants getting into your sys-
TEN and breeding. II one of your
glands stop functioning you will
get along just as well by eating
the extract Of such a gland taken
from an animal. II your gallstones
offend you, take something that
initiates natural sleep and have
somebody pluck them out, with no
pain TO yourself.
All these seem so reasonable
it's a wonder they weren't dis
covered by the Egyptians. But to
create a light that will go through
parts of your body, opaque to your
natural eyes, and see what is in
side--that is truly out Of this
world.
In the fifty years that have
passed since that discovery, work.
ers with the x-ray have made re-
markable strides in extending its
usefulness. What is it capable Of
doing and what is it not capable
Of doing7 That question wish TO
answer briefly in the following few
articles.
One Chief Lesson
One Of the chief lessons all sur
geons and x-ray men have had TO
learn is that the one they should
have learned at their mothers
knee-"Lead US not into tempta-
ton. but deliver US from evil"
The x-ray only too often shows too
much, there are such fascinating
things that could be cut out. May
be they should be cut out. Re-
straint il here necessary.
That is why / am not SO sure
such advice as that recently ap-
pearing in the Journal Of the Den
tai Association is sound. II said:
l"Your tseth should be x-rayed
every twelve months" That is
simply throwing temptation in the
dentists path: maybe he will not
he strong-minded enough to avoid
'"doing something" for some little
lunimportant deviation from nor
NAL.
Certainly the x-ray shows up
the teeth in fine style. They are
structures perfectly adapted for
its particular properties. 1t shows
APPEAL assesses and impacted
teeth and crooked teeth and where
the bite is wrong and excess tooth
structure and it all looks so easy
and a mere matter Of mechanics
to fix up.
What Ii Wrong
But there are times when our
ability to see what is wrong ex-
ceeds our ability to fix it, and many
a guy is at this moment removing
both his plates so he can put them
in a solution in a glass where they
won't hurt him, because he had an
I-ray Of his teeth taken every six
months and his dentist did not
have sense enough to let well
enough alone.
To do everybody justice. this
does not happen as often as it used
TO. You are not likely to suffer
from a modern dentist what you
might have had to endure twenty
to thirty years ago. The patients
Of those days were the martyrs To-
q somewhat too fascinating dis
covery and the lessons learned
from them are saving you much
unnecessary grief. The x-ray. like