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The following is what Dr. Bailey reports about his discovery : 



"The first object was to eliminate certain chemicals in the rock which 

 had a harmful tendency. Finally I reached the substance which I 

 think meets all requirements. This is a tough, thin, pliable material 

 resembling kid leather, which can be sterilized. A blow pipe can be 

 used on it without in any way damaging it or affecting its properties. 



"The substance can be burned to ashes, if sufficient heat be applied, 

 and enough light remains in the ashes to make a photograph. This 

 substance carries the violet ray right into the tissue, just as it carries 

 it through metal or any other substance. One of the curious experi- 

 ments was the taking of a photograph through a stove lid on which 

 tho-rad-X had been spread. The main factor in the application of my 

 discovery is extending the light over a large surface which in effect 

 means the homoeopathic idea of attenuated treatment rather than 

 treatment with mass." 



Dr. Bailey said that handling these great forces so intimately had in 

 a measure made him radio-active and while he acknowledged this to a 

 witness, he said that it was simply the result of the high tension under 

 which he has labored so long. 



The name, Tho-rad-X, was chosen because of the derivation of the 

 substance or combination of thorium and radium which produces the 

 unknown quantity X as seen in its effects, the ultra violet ray. 



There are twenty tons of the rock available for immediate use in 

 Colorado. 



P. S. We publish the above, because it may interest our readers, it 

 is so far an unknown quantity and it may possibly be that this is per- 

 haps a newspaper yarn. — Editor. 



PROF. HENRY H. RUSBY. 



A Tribute. 



BY NATHAN WINTER, PH.G. (n. Y. C. P., 'o6). 



The election of Dr. Rusby as President of the American Pharma- 

 ceutical Association is probably the greatest honor and proof of loyalty 

 which the educated Pharmacist of this country could bestow upon him 

 whom they so highly esteem. 



Somehow the very mentioning of his name seems to recall trust 

 and sincerity and tends to make us feel both happy and sad ; happy that 

 we have had the good fortune of being taught by such an able teacher, 

 and sad that those days when we sat in the great lecture room and 

 eagerly listened to his wonderful eloquence have passed never to come 

 again. 



