Show FINE X-RAY X MACHINE AS AID TO SURGERY Local Physician Gives Interesting Exhibition of New i Apparatus lUs Just Purchased by Him Great as has been the general Interest interest Interest Inter Inter- est in the phenomenon of the Roentgen ray the t for diagnostic diagnostic diagnostic nostic and therapeutic s have made malle their advent Into local b and surgical profession without oca oca- more than passing comment To the mass of people who arc are never under the lie necessity of visiting a physicians physician's physicians physician's phI phI- cian's clans laboratory It will perhaps be news to learn that at least twenty of such machines are now successfully used in Salt Lake and that some really realty wonderful results have been accomplished accomplished pushed b by them Dr A A. A A. A Kerr who has Just added a beautiful sample of the Morton Wini Im Holtz Hoitz Holtz machine to his equipment equip equip- ment gave e a interesting illustrations last Saturday of or the purposes the machine can an be put to The one of at absorbing Interest of course Is the X ray feature which enables one to look through anything anything any any- thin thing but the most dense deps substances like looking through glass with the lie Unaided un unaided unaided un- un aided eye The machine operated by hand liand or 1 by a motor generates its own electricity and concentrates it within a glass globe until the light becomes so o strong string mg as to be able t to penetrate the human body making Jt t cas easy for foi- the skilled eye ec of the phy physician to detect a diseased part or any foreign substance therein The fhe machine when used for remedial purposes put requires a current of electricity electric electric- i It ity anI only half as strong as for the X-ray X use For such stich ute use e the patient Is placed on a platform with non conducting glass legs leg a positive c current is Is' Is at attached at- at Inched to this and the negative current current current cur cur- rent char charging a brass rod In the thc hands of the physician is applied to the pa patient patient patient pa- pa tient completing the circuit and send send- ng ing through him a gentle Jentle flow now of or the giving lire charge chare This it Is Ig claimed will often orten cure chronic cases of at rheumatism rheumatism superficial cancers stilt tilI Joints and consumption in its early earh stages A quotation from Cram a standard medical work will Illustrate the Immense value of the X-ra X ray X-ray machine It has happened happened happened hap hap- that patients have been operated on for appendicitis when no Inflammation tion ion of or the appendix existed The rhe symptoms symptoms syrup syrup- toms simulating appendicitis afterward proved pro to be due to pneumonia Should there ther be he any uncertainty as to the presence presence presence pres pres- ence of ot pneumonia In an any such case the doubt would be set at rest by an X Xray Xray X- X ray examination Dr Kerrs Kerr's machine is one of the largest largest larg larg- est in the West and anti Is attracting much attention Its value to a surgeon Is al almost almost almost al- al most priceless |