In answer to a
question, "What of the future?" he said:
"I am not a prophet, and I am opposed to prophesying. I am pursuing
my investigations, and as fast as my results are verified I shall make
them public."
"Do you think the rays can be so modified as to photograph the organs
of the human body?"
In answer he took up the photograph of the box of weights. "Here are
already modifications," he said, indicating the various degrees of
shadow produced by the aluminium, platinum, and brass weights, the
brass hinges, and even the metallic stamped lettering on the cover of
the box, which was faintly perceptible.
"But Professor Neusser has already announced that the photographing of
the various organs is possible."
"We shall see what we shall see," he said. We have the start now; the
developments will follow in time."
"You know the apparatus for introducing the electric light into the
stomach?"
"Yes."
"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.
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