X-RAYS HARNESSED.

Grey River Argus, 28 April 1910, Page 1

X-RAYS HARNESSED.

KU&ATMBNT i}f 'DANGEIi-tROOF ROOM.

SAFETY FOR DOCTORS

The final conquering of X-rays and the successful harnessing of them for th*« treatment of diseased conditions without danger to tfte operator have been brought a decided step nearer by a clever arrangement of apparatus just installed at the Lontiton Hospital. It will be remembered that Dr HallEdwards and Mr Harry Cox suffered serious injuries through experiments with X-rays. [ The initial principle of the apparatus, which was explained to our medical correspondent by Dr Blackall, the chiet operator, is that the operator cannot inadvertently come within the range of the rays. A middleaged woman with a red and angry lupus scar on her face who came for treatment during my visit (write* a medical correspondent) afforded a striking object lesson, of the advances 'in. treatment by X-rays which have been made in the past few yearns. The patient lay on a leather couch a in a white-painted cubicle, two the] front wall of which were to ordinary I glass windows and a door having two 1 glass panels. An X-ray tube surround ed by a shield of Bohemian lead glass (impermeable to the rays) was arranged to protect her from the light at everp point except the one where a narrow shaft of rays could fall directly on the lupus patch. The patient being in position, the operator left the cubicle, carefully closing the door behind him. Then, and tih^n only, th# current was turned on.