WONDERFUL CAMERA.
PHOTOGRAPHS IN BODY. SWALLOWED BY PATIENT. LONDON, Feb. 8. A camera which a patient swallows, and which photographs the interior of the body, was demonstrated successfully at St. Mary's Hospital, London. It is the invention of two young Austrian scientists and consists of a flexible tube, carrying 16 pinhole cameras, the whole taking up about 2in. When the patient swallows the cameras by means of a tube light is introduced, which lasts a part of a second, giving a flash of 200,000 candle power. This suffices to taken 16 photographs, each the size of a piece of confetti. When tho photographs aro enlarged 100 times and pieced together they give a complete picture of the interior of tho body. Each camera costs £l6O sterling. The invention will be invaluable in cases of cancer of the stomach and internal ulcers, and may often prevent the necessity of an operation. The inventors had to overcome tremendous difficulties, including pulsations of the stomach and the finding of a flash giving light without heat. One wire within a tube carries a current for tho flash, while the other operates the tiny shutters.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20794, 10 February 1931, Page 11
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