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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 273, 3 November 1916, Page 2

The British Medical Journal gives details of a refttarkable invention whereby it is possible in broad daylignt to obtain detailed pictures of the brain, liver, kidneys, the spleen and other organs of the body, and to see lesions, such as a blood clot on the brain and abscesses on the liver. Toe pictures have been obtained by utilising currents of electricity, which the body is believed to generate. The machinery was invented by Sergeant James Shearer, R.A.M.C., on active service. The patient is laid on a deal table and the current is turned on for sixtyseconds. A record of the living organ is produced on a wax sheet, from which the photographs can be produced. The photographs show the blood-vessels of the brain in wonderful detail. The apparatus only works while the body is alive.

The success of the inhaling treatment given soldiers in New Zealand military camps is deinonsrated in the following figures, supplied by Surgeon-General Henderson. During the last week 183 cases were treated, and of these 162 cases were cured. 6 are described as much improved, and 10 no change. They are divided into the following classes : (a) Carriers of c.s.m.—B treated and 8 cured : (b) contacts c.s.m.— treated 68, declared free after treatment 68 : (c) sore throats—treated I<*.?, cured 86, much improved 5, no change 8 : (d) influenza —treated 2. no change 2. On Saturday' General Henderson Stated that there was now onlv one case at. Trentham seriously ill, this being a case of cerebro-spinal meningitis. The others in hospital were doing well, and otherwise the health of the men in camp was good.