Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1896 — X RAYS SAVING CONSUMPTIVES [ARTICLE]

X RAYS SAVING CONSUMPTIVES

Tests Full of Hope, Though No Definite Results Yet Assured. Andrew Gorgon, of Chicago, bound to die with consumption, has had dye weeks’ treatment with the Roentgen ray. The physicians declared the boy’s case .hopeless, treated by ordinary methods. They promised to watch the progress under the new, weird influence. This they have done. They are not prepared to state positively that the disease has dually found its cure. Some of them are forced to the conclusion that the result has been wonderful. One signs bis name to the declaration that the effects “so far are but little short of the marvelous." They are all conservative. They speak only of the changes actually recorded and waive final judgment until the patient shall have been subjected to the new discovery for a second period of five weeks. This is the first case iu all the world where the ray has been applied to a hnman being and regular clinic reports kept concerning the results. It was cabled from Lyons a week ago, with the flourish which usually attaches to any scientific discovery on the, oilier side, that Prof. Hortet had destroyed the germs of tuberculosis in tlk* lungs of a guinea pig. It was also announced in Loudon that the same breed of bacilli had been slniu in the same way when exposed ia ‘Jve culture tube.j