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The Roentgen Rays

1896; BMJ; Volume: 1; Issue: 1833 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1136/bmj.1.1833.433

0959-8138

G. M. Keevil,

Professor Oliver Lodge also sends a negative showing the position of a bullet in a wrist, but too late for publication this week.in regard to the newspaper reports describing the all.egedproduction of Roentgen photographs by means of the light emitted from paraffin lamps and bunsen burners it is not possible to speak at present.Suclh results seem very improbable, and uintil more is known about them and actual speci- incus (of the work done come to hand we must rest content with the reports.THE NEW KIND OF RADIATION.Sl1, -Should it be proved, as Sir Willoughby Wade has sugested, tlhalt the bactericidal rays of sunlight are identical withi lRoentgen's x rays, or even if they can be proved to be s.iniil.arini their ixuenetrating power without being actually of the same kinld, the fact will open up a wide field in therapeutics.For not only only is the tubercle bacillus destroyed 'by exposure, to suniliglht, but a number of other bacilli and pathogenic organisms of various kinds are similarly affected.It is iinterestinig to note that as long ago as i8881 Dr. R. L. Bowles recognised the interesting and important fact that in Alpine regions a peculiar plhoto-chemical effect was due to certain rays reflected from large areas on masses of sniow, and that these rays penetrated to a certain depth below the sur- face of the skin, causinig in summer severe sunburn, and in