NEW X-RAY WONDER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19976, 19 June 1928, Page 9

NEW X-RAY WONDER.

REMARKABLE STEREOSCOPE. WONDERFUL AID TO DOCTORS. A new X-ray wonder, which it is claimed will enable medical men to watch the functioning of interior organs of the body for extended periods, is to he demonstrated shortly in London. Invented by Professor Born Hardt, of Munich, ft well-known research physicist, it is known as "tho stereoscopic X-ray. Lieut.-Colonel G. S. Hutchinson, whose sunlight treatment of the colliers at Sherwoo.l, Nottinghamshire, has attracted much attention, is responsible for tho introduction of the new device here. It will " he declares, "make diagnosis much easier, and it is one of the biggest advances in surgical science m recent years. Commenting on the new apparatus, a leading radiologist who knaws Hcrr Born Hardt, said various devices had been introduced into X-ray apparatus to get a stereoscopic effect, and it was possible this was a technical improvement on existing methods «' It must bebornem mind, however, ne addnd that the eenerai practice of radiologists is to cut down screen examination of the patient as much as possible. All the time you are subjecting the patients to radiation, and unless some means of pro u ectmg_ them is devised there is a danger of givirg them a bad burn,.'-'