ARTERIAL SURGERY
‘Hair Gun" Invented
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) LONDON, Feb. 17. A British surgeon is preparing to shoot patients in the head—to save their lives, says the “Evening Standard.” His “bullets” will be bristles from a pig, and he will use a remarkable new medical tool known as the Hair Gun.
The surgeon was not named.
The Hair Gun, invented in the United States, fired the bristles singly into aneurysms —weak spots in brain artery walls that balloon and might burst, causing a stroke. “The Hair Gun fires Jin long bristles- into the balloon- ' ing artery with just enough force to pierce the wall. Tiny clots of blood form round the tips of lhe bristles poking through.” The treatment builds up a patchwork of strengthening clots until the aneurysm shrinks.
The first British patients to be treated will be at hospitals in Northumberland.
THE MALTESE Government has formally asked to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30678, 18 February 1965, Page 13
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