My father receives your little paper, THE GREAT ROUND
WORLD, every week. I like it real well, and all the rest of
the people and children I have let take one of the copies liked
it so well I let them take more copies. I think it a very nice
little paper, and wish you success. I send you the following
extract, taken from "Wit and Wisdom," showing that the X-rays
are not a recent discovery altogether.
THOMAS C. SCOTT.
BINGHAMTON, N.Y., Jan. 25th., 1897.
"Dr. Milio, the celebrated surgeon of Kieff, while on a visit to
St. Petersburg, explained the means he had invented for
illuminating the body by means of the electric light to such an
extent that the human machine may be observed almost as if skin
and flesh were transparent. The Moscow _Gazette_ asserts that to
demonstrate the feasibility of his process, Dr. Milio placed a
bullet inside his mouth, and then lighted up his face, upon
which the bullet became distinctly visible through his cheek.
Dr. Milio did not propose to lay bare all the secrets of the
flesh, to explore the recesses of the heart, or to perform any
miracles, physical or metaphysical. But he claimed to have
discovered a new and effective way of dealing with gun-shot
wounds: first, by means of electric illumination, he discovered
the precise situation of the bullet; next, by means of
magnetism, he proposed to extract the bullet, provided always
that the bullet contained some portion of steel. Against leaden
bullets his system is powerless, and he therefore intended to
represent to the International Committee, which met at Geneva,
the desirability of recommending an admixture of steel in the
manufacture of all future bullets. Dr. Milio's experiments with
bullets containing only a slight admixture of steel are said to
have been thoroughly successful."