The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, July 08, 1915, Page 3, Image 3
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Xew Method*, of Extracting
in War Ho>pitaU.
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In the new "radioscope surgery"
of the war hospitals, the surgeon is
guided by an X-ray picture. The
special equipment designed by Dr.
Wullyamoz includes the X-ray stand,
with a fluoroscope. and surgical instruments
differing from the ordinary
in being bent at a right angle.
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The patient is so piaceu mai mc
X-rays projected upward from the
bulb in the stand pass through the
wounded part and fall upon the fluoroscopic
screen. First locating the
bullet accurately by observations
from different angles, the surgeon
guides his probe so that the shadow
at its point touches the shadow of
the bullet, then cuts the skin. and.
adjusting his forceps by the shadows,
presses it vertically downward.
Opening the forceps and grasping
the foreign body, and kind of bullet
. > or shell fragment can be removed
in less than a minute.
Some interesting facts in the rapid
development of the aeroplane were
lately brought to the notice of the {
London Royal institution. In 1912,
the Cody machine, winning the military
prize, traveled at a maximum of
72 and a minimum of 48 miles an
hour, a speed range of 33 per cent;
and in 1914, a Sopwith machine had
maximum and minimum speeds of
92 and 37 miles, a pange of 60 per
cent. The power required for flying
at 70 miles an hour has been lessened
more than 10 per cent, by simply
changing the shape of the aeroplane
i wires from round to oval.
The air's temperature range near
the earth's surface is given as about
131 degrees F.?or from 127.4 degrees
accepted as the highest reading
lor Ouargla, Algerian Sahara, to 97.6
degrees below zero at Verkhoyansk,
Siberia. Thermometers not properly
shaded from the sun's direct rays
are thought to explain the higher
temperatures reported by travelers.
The very lowest record is 135 degrees
below zero, but this is the register
of a sounding balloon at a height of
10 miles above Java.
Honhajar/l invention has brought i
to the United States results so marvelous
that one can only vaguely
wonder what limits of achievement
will be reached in the dawning era
of scientific research by trained specialists
with apparatus of the highest
type. The research laboratory of the
General Electric company has already
put upon the market such
epoch-making products as drawntungsten
wire, the nitrogen-filled
damp, and the Coolidge X-ray tube,
and has just made known the "keno.
tron" rectifier for high pressure elecItric
currents. Based upon a curious
effect noted by Edison, the kenotron
has been worked out chiefly by Dr.
Irving- Langmuir. A metal plate is
sealed into a vacuum bulb with a carbon
or tungsten filament, and a current
passes across the high vacuum
when the filament is charged negatively
by an electric current and the
plate positively, but when the filament
is made positive no current
passes. The 60-called "heruiionic
current" is attributed to the passage
of a stream of electrons, or negatively
charged particles about 1.800
times smaller than hydrogen atoms.
The kenotron changes alternating into
direct currents very effectively.
I but so far has been chiefly useful for j
producing small direct currents at
very high voltages, as for X-ray work,
precipitating dust. etc.
A new gasoline-electric automobile
depends for its power on a two-cylinder
water-cooled engine connected
directly to a five-kilowatt generator
operating at 50 volts. The storage
battery is .in two sections, one-half
being placed on each side of the,
chassis outside the frame; and the
motor is connected directly to the
rear axle through a double universaljointed
shaft and four to one reducing
gear. The car's total weight is
about 5,000 pounds. On ordinary
roads it can be run 20 miles by the
battery without1 aid from the engine,
and tests have shown an 'average
efficiency of 58.5 ton-miles per gallon
of fuel.
; The fire alarm siren heard 17
miles from its Colorado station is the
rotor of an electric motor. At 3.600
revolutions per minute air is driven
through 12 apertures in the rotor
lasing with the production of about
100 vibrations per second, giving an
Ktraordinarilv penetrating note
early two octaves higher than midlie
C. As the alarm switch interlipts
the current, the peculiar wail
Ig produced compels attention.
The venom of the poisonous sernts
that swarm the damp. hot forts
of Brazil is very curiously not
[ected by the antidote serum of Dr.
llmette. of Lillfe. and special serns
for the prevention and cure of
V effects of Brazilian snake bites
I prepared at Dr. Vital Brazil's
fc-acre Serotherapic institute. I)iffcnt
venoms are produced by the
K chief families of snakes- -the
hrops and the Crotales. An acnt
by Dr. Jacques Bover states
B. the Bothrop's venom decompos
<;h;ai:> and r.u k eyes.
When I'retty < ??I Took Charge Trade
Uecame Yeiy !lri.?k.
A gray-haired man who wore a
skull cap had operated the cigar and
news stand for years. An air o:' quiet
and peace, sometimes the omnious
forerunner of commercial disaster,
had lately hung over the place.
One day there was a change. Even
from across the street it could be discerned
that a metamorphosis had
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laheii piclCt;. Ail an vjl uii^ntu^
and business surrounded the old
news stand. On closer investigation
it was found that the outside had
been repainted and an attractive window
display arranged. A new name
had been painted in gold letters
across the window. And just outside
the door stood the new proprietor.
She was a vision in a light blue,
carefully tailored dress, big blue eyes
and a mop of blonde hair arranged
in an intricate but extremely attractive
pattern. A bystander continued
to gaze surreptitiously at the apparition
under the pretense of looking at
some magazines fastened in the window.
When the vision started toward
him he was too startled to retreat.
The door opened and a soft
voice inquired if he would not come
in and look at the better things that
were in display inside. He went in,
although he wanted neither magazines
nor cigars. Inside there was
an unwonted air of order and busi
ness. Under the spell or tne Diue
eyes and the blonde hair the man
bought two two-for-a-quarter cigars,
although he had always found fivecent
ones perfectly satisfactory before,
and a thirty-five cent magazine
tihat he had never seen before and
in which he was not at all interested.
Soon others discovered a new interest
in cigars and magazines. Business
grew better with each day. A
group of young fellows who spent
money as well as talked constantly
about the place, and its presiding
genius served all with impartiality.
Business was good. Another chapter,
however, remained to be added
to a story which properly should end
here. The young woman proprietor
was missing one day and a young
man was in her place. He was one j
of the young men who had hung
most faithfully about the place for ,
some time preceding. He seems now
to be a permanent fixture at the old
stand. Occasionally the young woman
relieves him for an afternoon,
and sometimes she comes just before
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gether, but the young man seems to
be directing the business. And business
is not so good now.?Indianapq?
lis News.
No Use For Them.
While a traveling man was waiting
for an opportunity to show his
samples to a merchant in a little
backwoods town in Missouri, a customer
came in and bought a couple
of night 6hirts. Afterward a long,
lank lumberman, with his trousers
stuffed in his boots, said to the merchant:
"What was them 'ere that feller
bought?"
"Night shirts. Can I sell you one
or two?"
"Naup; I reckon not," said the
Missourian; "I don't set around much
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U UigULO.
es the blood and causes internal
hemorrhage, with great congestion
of liver, kidneys and brain, and the
venom of the Crotales, or rattlesnakes,
paralyzes respiration, circulation
usually causing death within
24 'hours. Serums are prepared for
each of these poisons, a third?compound
or polyvalent?being made effective
for any bite where the kind
of snake is unknown. The institute
keeps its snakes in shelters in a
water-enclosed park, and healthy
horses and asses are injected with
their venom in increasing doses every
five or six days for a year. The animals
thus immunized supply antidote
serum for a long period. Be
sides serums for plague, diphtheria
and tetanus, the institute in 1913
distributed about 900 tubes of rattlesnake
serum. $00 of Bothrops. and
4,500 of polyvalent, and it received
4.500 snakes.
A newly-patented alloy of iron, boron,
carbon and copper is claimed to
be practically non-corrosive, and.
while hard and tough, it can be rolled
into sheets or easily machined
wit-hrmt annonlinp. In nrcnarin? thp
metal, boron is added to copper in
greater amount than will combine.
Added to iron or steel, the mixture
forms a homogeneous alloy; and So
parts of Bessemer scrap with 20 of
the copper-boron mixture give a metal
that yields perfect and easily
worked castings in ordinary moulds.
In a novel combination of humidifier
and insect trap, an electric suction
fan draws flies and niosquitos.
or other insects, into a wire cage,
and a wet sponge in the cage adds
moisture to the air passed on into;
the room. The insects are lured by J
a syrup-sn eared plate in the day and i
?. lamp at night.
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