A giant electro-magnet has been installed at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, for use in attracting foreign bodies from the eyes of patients. Accidents frequently happen in which small pieces of steel or iron become lodged in the eyes, and their location and extraction, without the use of modern appliances, is difficult. The magnet at the Prince Alfred Hospital is powerful enough to find and draw any such fragment out of the eye. The instrument is circular in shape, with one of the poles on an adjustable arm. When the circle of metal has been lowered over the face of the patient the current is turned on. and gradually increased until the magnetism draws out the foreign body. The cost of the "installation, including electric transformers, was £177,
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 152, 24 December 1926, Page 13
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129Page 13 Advertisements Column 1 Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 152, 24 December 1926, Page 13
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