Photographing the Unseen 



"Do you think that this electric light will 

 become a vacuum tube for photographing, 

 from the stomach, any part of the abdomen or 

 thorax?" 



The idea of swallowing a Crookes tube, and 

 sending a high frequency current down into one's 

 stomach, seemed to him exceedingly funny. 

 "When I have done it', I will tell you," he said, 

 smiling, resolute in abiding by results. 



"There is much to do, and I am busy, very 

 busy," he said in conclusion. He extended his 

 hand in farewell, his eyes already wandering 

 toward his work in the inside room. And his 

 visitor promptly left him; the words, "I am 

 busy," said in all sincerity, seeming to de- 

 scribe in a single phrase the essence of his 

 character and the watchword of a very unusual 

 man. 



Returning by way of Berlin, I called upon 

 Herr Spies of the Urania, whose photographs 

 after the Rontgen method were the first made 

 public, and have been the best seen thus far. In 

 speaking of the discovery he said: 



" I applied it, as soon as the penetration of 

 flesh was apparent, to the photograph of a man's 

 hand. Something in it had pained him for 

 years, and the photograph at once exhibited a 

 small foreign object, as you can see; " and he 

 exhibited a copy of the photograph in question. 

 "The speck there is a small piece of glass, which 

 was immediately extracted, and which, in all 

 probability, would have otherwise remained in 

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