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Isoldi, where in a little booth shut off by a white-rubber curtain, she received electrical massages, applications of a magic N-ray hair-brush, vigorous cold-creaming and warm-compressing, and enormous amounts of advice about caring for the hair follicles, from a young woman who spoke French with a Jewish accent. By a twist of psychology, though she had not been particularly fond of Mr.
Sinclair Lewis - The Job: An American Novel

"How on earth could I have obtained that photograph of her in the darkness?" he demanded. "N-rays," said the Tracer coolly. "It has been done in France." "Yes, from living people, but " "What the N-ray is in living organisms, we must call, for lack of a better term, the subaura in the phantom." They bent over the photograph together. Presently the Tracer said: "She is very, very beautiful?"
Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers - The Tracer of Lost Persons
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