Show iii ii i Y X RAYS UR LR CARL L I 1 BARNES MAKES MAKE SS A STARTLING 0 DISCOVERY nv sw tight sent through Thront rh a C corar the victuro mad 10 darker than tb that tbt t made froan body A ji arIlon discovery are no longer to be puzzled to determine whether a patient la is dead the professional fess ional man who has put a kink in his neck holdin holding g his left ear under afif fifth th rib of the left side of a supposed corpse to make balf way sure gnat life wu was extinct can now have relief dr carl L barnes of chicago has made a discovery an xray X ray discovery by which the presence of death can be readily detected says chicago news dr barnes based his experiments on the fact that a dead hand held before a lamp does not transmit ordinary rays of light though they readily pass through throng h the hand of the living the latter is luminously red the former dark and opaque thle this radiation is scientifically explained on the theory of refraction and the blood corpuscles corpus cles the red corpuscles corpus cles are biconcave bi concave disks which have highly refractory powers in life rendering it possible tor for light to penetrate the structure acting upon thi theory he made a practical demon s rj abion a few weeks ago in his laboratory in this city A scia graph of a dead hard and a living hand was taken on the same came plate the two hands bands that of the body after death aad also to ocular tension tho the grua gradual cooling 9 of the body la is considered one on or of the surest signs of death and yet the coldness of collapse that follows guP supposed POsed drowning la is frequently mistaken for the postmortem post mortem cooling ocular tension has been regarded as a certain test but in cases of glaucoma the tension during life is very ry great cOni consequently after death when the tension naturally relaxes a glaucomatous eye assumes the tension of a normal eye absen absence ce of circulation is a good test but instances are on record wh where ere people have been restored when there was neither pulse beat nor heart sound and the respiratory function almost suspended by narcotic polso poisoning ning even postmortem post mortem ds discoloration coloration cannot be accepted as an indic indication aaion of death as the same game staining is frequently seen in life N neither either can muscular contractility be relied on as after death from asiatic cholera the contraction often appears in the muscles mule 1 of the lower jaw and flexor muscles of the forearm rigor mortis is not infallible as a s this rigidity is often assumed by cataleptics and those halt half drowned or frozen 0 of dr barnes and one where the arm arl ad been amputated at the elbow were 11 i fide ide by side on a which hf F i he sensitized bit of glass tte the marvelous mechanism was set in monon mo non and the powerful light focused tull JU on the two objects after an exposure of fifteen minutes the plate was car gainfully fully developed and the result prove to 10 the doctors profound catis batis facton the unmistakable difference between t 4 fen f en dead and living flesh the bones of both hands were about equally well defined but the soft parts of the dead hand were noticeably darker which narks marks the difference between dead tissues tissue s and living tissues even under the present crude conditions the expert can readily bisti distinguish giase between the to however the scia graph does not gie as good results as the horoscope and other instruments recently indented to examine tissues with the naked eye unless the subject has been dead for several hours houm it if the scia graph Is taken within a few hours after death the hands will be alike but as the change in the tissues begins to take place then the X rays will show a decided diff difference arence in penetration one of the first cons constituents constitute titue ants of the human body to undergo decomposition after death said the doctor is ie the blood then follows the intestines trachea brain muscles etc all of this will take place in many eases cases within a few houm honre after death the natural ten dency of all this decompose decompo decomposition si tion is to the tissues thus permitting the X rays to penetrate them more readily than in a subject more recently dead where such buch decomposition h has as not commenced but bat the experiment t Is a distinct success and is of vital importance not only to physicians and undertaken but to humanity lu in general lor for ingrained in every soul is a latent horror of being onried alive li hitherto liberto all signs of death haves haver their exceptions even evea putrefaction often aften appears in UV liv lug bodies mid and regarded as an general owing ta th tb chemical como the latest theories of deal leaU beena fi yaa or ze ra a adue U p |