What X Rays Do

From experiments made by him and reported in The Electrical Review, Tesla is inclined to believe that the Roentgen rays represent a stream of actual particles of matter. Whether these are from the electrode and walls of the tube ot whether they are from the outside of the object that is photographed and are driven by the rays against the sensitive plate he is not certain. It is certain, though, that they strike with great force the sensitive plate on which the photograph appears. Mr. Tesla finds that these rays will, so far as known, pass straight through everything but bone and metal. His most interesting experiment is that dealing with the Fensation produced on the human body by letting a stream of the rays flow steadily and for a considerable time up on any part of it. He himself is inclined to believe that the atoms which form the flowing stream of the X rays are from the charged surface of the electrode, and that they are driven into the body by the rays. Reasoning from this he sees the possibility of medicating any part of the body by merely driving into it by these rays atoms of any desired chemical. If this be true, the long suffering human stomach will be released from its function of sorving as a drugshop for the whole human body.