NEW SURGICAL KNIFE
Successful cancer operations with a new surgical knife using a radio current have been carried out at the Vanderbilt Clinic, in New York, by Dr George Wyeth. The knife used is like an ordinary sawing needle, but is-held in a rubber handle, and high frequency, .currents - are'.-passed into-it through radio .'tubes, which transform . the cm*rent into .undamped, continuous, oscillations. ■■ Ike resistance of the tissues;-of the •body produces heat, _ increasing with pressure and duration, instead of diminishing as with all other forms of ■applied heat, and the .cuts produce,a. minimum of bleeding, and by cauterisation of the nerves a minimum of pain. Control is so perfect that operations on the eyes and vocal chords have been performed with .virtually no scar. - By placing another pole beneath the patient’s body, -Dr Wyeth has; found ■that a.mirrent-Vill pass into the cancer and mortify it. It can then be cut .out with the needle, which ' produces' a. sterilised wound.—‘Daily News,’
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Evening Star, Issue 19268, 5 June 1926, Page 9
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159NEW SURGICAL KNIFE Evening Star, Issue 19268, 5 June 1926, Page 9
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