Show TORIES FOR THE X RAYS ea pig with diphtheria U completely Compre tely cured columbia mo correspondence chicago c a 9 0 T ri b u n e T the b e experiments that have been going on in the electrical I 1 laboratory a b 0 ra to r y i in n ts testing ti n g the effect of the roentgen rays upon diphtheria bacilli all confirm the theory that the germs may be destroyed by the rays the list last experiment was made with a live guinea pig probably the first experiment of the kind upon a living animal ever made in this country it was sul sue dr william dean of the electrical department and drs B R E graham and J R hickman of the department part par ment truent of bacteriology of the missouri state university uni have been making these exhaustive experiments and today to day give out the following official announcement for these experiments the germs were grown in a bouillon culture two days old the culture was placed in a rubber box and subjected to the rays for a period varying from two to three hours three blood serum tubes were inoculated from the box after having been exposed and were placed in an in c cu bator remaining there for five days upon examination two of the tubes showed no growth and the other showed a growth which was barely perceptible A microscopic examination of this tube containing the growth and diphtheria was made new tubes of blood serum and bouillon were inoculated from this tube and so far there has been no growth whatever the most striking and conclusive experiment peri ment was performed on last monday night two guinea pigs weighing respectively and grammes were inoculated with a solid growth of diphtheria suspended in sterilized distilled water the pig weighing grammes was exposed to the roentgen rays for four hours in a wooden box bo gon three inches wide four and oric one half balf inches long and two and one fourth inches deep with a sheet of rubber in place of the top after seventy two hours this pis pig showed no signs of distress tt t 4 and is just as lively as he was before tho the injection the pip pig wei china 10 which was not exposed to the rays died within twenty cipot hours after the injection arid and the postmortem showed his death was due to tho the anit ebion of f diphtheria fait Furt tier investigations lestig lations are being made on this and other gernis genn A practical test of cathode rays has nen been maile made upon a toledo patient t an and 3 b by of them a physical phy cause for a until n infirmity v lias been 1 een discovered l the X N rais i hive bave blosel hl jis loed osel tho the fact that a kuraica lur cical 1 operation will ill remove rell jove the physical deformity and r restore tore perma bently the reason of the patient |