Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 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 five 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 bns finally found its cure. Some of them nrc forced to the conclusion that the result hns been wonderful; One signs his name to the declaration that the effects “so far are but little short of the marvelous.” They are nil 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 in all the .world where .the ray has been applied to a human being and regular clinic reports kept concerning the results. It was cabled from Lyoti^'H 1 week ago, with the flourish which usu'iifiT attaches to any scientific discovery the other wide, that I’rof. Ilortet had destroyed the germs of tuberculosis in tlic lungs of a guinea pig. It was also announced in Ixmdon that the same breed of bacilli had befn slain in the same wgy when exposed iu the culture tube.