Gregory. "Now
I have shown you my apparatus to impress on you how really
impossible it would have been for her to contract it from her
treatments here. I've made thousands of exposures with never an
X-ray burn before--except to myself. As for myself, I'm as
careful as I can be, but you can see I am under the rays very
often, while the patient is only under them once in a while."
To illustrate his care he pointed out to us a cabinet directly
back of the operating-table, lined with thick sheets of lead.
From this cabinet he conducted most of his treatments as far as
possible. A little peep-hole enabled him to see the patient and
the X-ray apparatus, while an arrangement of mirrors and a
fluorescent screen enabled him to see exactly what the X-rays
were disclosing, without his leaving the lead-lined cabinet.
"I can think of no more perfect protection for either patient or
operator," said Kennedy admiringly. "By the way, did Mrs. Close
come alone?"
"No, the first time Mr. Close came with her. After that, she came
with her French maid."
The next day we paid a visit to Mrs. Close herself at the private
hospital. Kennedy had been casting about in his mind for an
excuse to see her, and I had suggested that we go as reporters
from the Star. Fortunately after sending up my card on which I
had written Craig's name we were at length allowed to go up to
her room.
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