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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."
DEAR THOMAS:
Your letter is very interesting.
It has long been known that it is possible to see through matter if we
only knew just how. The X-ray has shown us the way.
THE EDITOR.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE GREAT ROUND WORLD:
In your edition of Jan. 21st, 1897, you wrote of the swallowing
up by the sea of Robinson Crusoe's Island, or the island of Juan
Fernandez. Now I have always heard this island called "Robinson
Crusoe's Island," and I think the reason is, that Alexander
Selkirk was cast away there, and on his adventures the story of
Robinson Crusoe was written by Daniel Defoe. But I have read
"Robinson Crusoe," and the island as described by him cannot be
the Island of Juan Fernandez, but must be one of the Windward
Islands in the Caribbean Sea, off the mouth of the great Orinoco
River in South America, and I think is the Island of Tobago;
this best fits the careful description of Daniel Defoe.
In Crusoe's first exploration of the island he says:
"I came in view of the sea to the west, and it being a very
clear day, I fairly descried land,... extending from the W. to
the W.S.W.... It could not be less than fifteen or twenty
leagues off."
There is no land situated W.S.W. from Juan Fernandez. W.S.W.
from the island of Tobago lies the great island of Trinidad.
When Crusoe attempts to sail around the island he says:
"I perceived a strong and most furious current."
This could be no other than the current from the mouth of the
great Orinoco River.
But what settles the matter is that after Crusoe had taught
Friday to speak English, he had a conversation with him, in
which Crusoe asks Friday:
"How far it was from our island to the shore, and whether the
canoes were not often lost. He told me there was no danger; no
canoes ever lost; but after a little way out to sea, there was a
current and wind always one way in the morning, the other in the
afternoon. This I understood to be no more than the sets of the
tide, as going out or coming in; but I afterward understood it
was occasioned by the great draft and reflux of the mighty river
Oroonoko, in the mouth of which river, as I thought afterwards,
our island lay; and that this land which I perceived to the
W.S.W. was the great island Trinidad."
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