Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1916 — Dr. Washburn Has Installed X-Ray Machine In Office. [ARTICLE]

Dr. Washburn Has Installed X-Ray Machine In Office.

Dr. I. M. Washbum has just finished the installation of an x-ray machine in his office. It is a wonderful machine, and is of the same make that the famous Mayo Bros., of Rochester, Minn., use in their hospital. The machine is capable of carrying 90,000 volts, about 80,000 more volts than is necessary to electrocute a nerson. There is-no danger from bums to the patient as an x-ray photo may be taken of a person in an instanr, and a very clear picture is the result. Many operations can be avoided by the use of this wonderful machine, as many ailments can be successfully determined when the nature of the trouble is shown.

With the completion of the new hospital, one of these machine will be placed in it and thus fortified, the greater per cent of the cases that are going to Chicago or Lafayette hospitals will be kept at home and Rensselaer physicians will perform the operations almost entirely.

The machine is a wonderful piece of mechanism, and its cost is considerable, but Small when the benefit derived therefrom is considered. The name o fthis machine is the KellyKeott.