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but now clearly revealed by the new photo- 

 graphy, are already becoming common, and are 

 being reported from all directions. Professor 

 Czermark of Graz has photographed the living 

 skull, denuded of flesh and hair, and has begun 

 the adaptation of the new photography to brain 

 study. The relation of the new rays to thought 

 rays is being eagerly discussed in what may be 

 called the non-exact circles and journals; and all 

 that numerous group of inquirers into the occult, 

 the believers in clairvoyance, spiritualism, 

 telepathy, and kindred orders of alleged phe- 

 nomena, are confident of finding in the new force 

 long-sought facts in proof of their claims. Pro- 

 fessor Neusser in Vienna has photographed gall- 

 stones in the liver of one patient (the stone show- 

 ing snow-white in the negative) , and a stone in 

 the bladder of another patient. His results so 

 far induce him to announce that all the organs 

 of the human body can, and will, shortly, be 

 photographed. Lannelongue of Paris has ex- 

 hibited to the Academy of Science photographs 

 of bones showing inherited tuberculosis which 

 had not otherwise revealed itself. Berlin has 

 already formed a society of forty for the immedi- 

 ate prosecution of researches into both the char- 

 acter of the new force and its physiological possi- 

 bilities. In the next few weeks these strange 

 announcements will be trebled or quadrupled, 

 giving the best evidence from all quarters of the 

 great future that awaits the Rontgen rays, and 

 the startling impetus to the universal search for 

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