X-RAYS AS AGE TEST.

Taihape Daily Times, 4 September 1919, Page 5

X-RAYS AS AGE TEST.

_ .._..__(;-..._... X-ray photogzraphs have been accepted in a law, court nus proof of a nlan’s ago. says the Daily Chronicle. The case in quesfior‘. was ‘heard ‘before the Subordinate Judge. at :\1l:1I1ab~:1d. who had to decide whetlfer one of the parties was under or over 2]. years of age. “Rku]ag'ralns” of the elbow joints and knee joints were produced. and two X—r.ay experts gave evidence that the plates showed ossifieat.ion of the inner and outer cartliages had taken place, and that they had joined the shafts of the bones. This, it is said, took place between the ages of 14 and 18, and the experts placetpi the ages of the persons eon’cel-ned as over 18 and less than 19.1 years. Another claim made for X-I'-ays is that by exposing to their light a good modern violin it will acquire the characteristic tone of a genuine Strad, the action ot"thr-3 rays in a few hours ngivig the wood hy sonic 60 years.