THE BULLET-FINDER
ELECTBO-MAGNET WHICH WHISTLES. ' An eleotrc-magnot which tells the position of a tullet by causing a sound " verv much like a steamboat whistle" in a stethoscope piaced on tho patient's skin is one of fee recent developments of war surgery, according to Surgeon-<reneral lnffbam, C.M.G., in an article in the Lancet' on tha Canadian Army Medicai Service. By means of the new magnet the exact position of any electro-magnetic substance, including the German bullet, can be determined. When the bullet is not deeply seated a vibration is set up by tho maf net which can readily be made' out bvtthe hand. When too deep for this, the electromagnet is placed on ono sido of the patient's body and a stethoscope is moved about ( on the sldn opposite tha magnet. J.ne steamboat whistle sound " indicates the nearest point to the foreign body, and theslan is marked at that point. The development of the locating of bullets by lbs magnet and similar means since.tho war began would be, according to burgeon-general Fotheringham, perfectly itfLazing to a civil surgeon
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Evening Star, Issue 16627, 9 January 1918, Page 2
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177THE BULLET-FINDER Evening Star, Issue 16627, 9 January 1918, Page 2
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