Show MADE BALD BY X RAYS mr levy finds the bullet ballet inside ma ing skull but bat loses his hair william levy of eau claire wis ma who recently had an X ray examination of his skull made by prof fred S jones at the physical laboratory of the minnesota state university had an experience PP peri klenec ence in consequence not generally supposed to accompany that process levy was shot in the head about ten years ears ago by an escaping bank defaulter the me bullet has haa been somewhere in his head ever e car since and in july he made up his mind to have it located loc abed accordingly he came up and sat from eight in the morning till ten at night for a roentgen ray picture of his head the bullet had bad passed into his skull just above the left ear going toward the back of the head after taking a couple of riga negatives tives they finally found about where the bullet was located the doctors wr wrapped appel his head up in wires which were definitely located A picture was taken through the skull from the front t the back of the head the tube from which the rays radiated bein being g for this purpose placed inside his mouth the picture thus secured showed the bullet very ery distinctly to be lying at the junction of two of the wires which crossed right under the occipital bone it 11 indicated also that the bu bullet alet had struck the back of the skull and turned forward again for the point of th the e bullet hems further from the plate bowed showed dimmer on the negative these exposures had taken up nearly the whole day but the patient felt no bad effects at the time lie ile had beer warned that the experiment might cause him the loss of his hair but th that at did d id not deter him from taking the r risk i sic A very strong current about 1000 its h arl A been ra parsed sed through th tube in making te t e exposures alc tlc TL next 0 T mr levy began to no ue a peculiar effect on his skin vh li ieca it had been eTo exposed sed to the ray and the hair on the right side 0 or his acl head A which had been near the wire arc began to f fall 11 out in a few yz ys th tb right side of his head way was his right bax had sac n to twice its it natural size and presented the same arc rance ance as if very badly brozer sores were vi visible sible on his head 10 h mouth and throat were blistered so th thit tha IT he could not eat solid food for thre weaks and his lips yere were cracked and bleeding in fact t th long exposure to the X rays while giving in him no pain at the time seemed tp to have h ive produced very v ary similar effects to a very severe burn bum mr levy has recovered from the effects of his burns but he still has half hal t a bald head he is a plucky pluck cy man about 30 years of age and intends to have ahr th investigation aaion carried further and the bullet removed he has already writ ten ien to prof jones asking for another sitting it is necessary now to have a negative showing just how far below the surface the bullet is located before the doctors decide whether the operation i I 1 on can be safely performed st paul dispatch dispatch |