Photographing the Stomach.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXIV, Issue 7696, 13 December 1899, Page 3

Photographing the Stomach.

Dr Fritu Lango, of Munich, has invonted an ingonious apparatus for photographing the intorior of tho human atomaeh. A New York papor contains tho following account of thin remarkablo dhcovory. A Dr Einhorn of Now York, had perfoctod a method for rendering tho atomaeh transluconb. He waa nob aatiaiiod with moroly seeing the inside of tho stomaoh; ho also wanted to photograph it, and ho Bpant a considerable timo trying to construct a camera whioh would do tho work successfully. Ho know how such a camera should bo oonatruotod, bub owing to technical difficulties ho did nob succeod in hia object. Now, howovor, a camera, designed for the same purpose, has boon perfoctod by Dr Fritz Lango, of Munich, Gormany, and lb is said to bo almosb on tho identical lines givon by Dr Einhorn. It does nob require any knowlodgo of photography to seo thab Dr Lange'a devico is u marvol of ingonuiby. Tho camera is conHtruotod on oxaotly tho samo principles as all cameras for taking moving photographs, although, of course, thero is no attempt made to combine them so as to project bho aotual operations of the stomaoh. It is doubtful, howovor, if a camera has over boforo been fashioned which is as compact as thiß one, or which haß beon pub to as strange a uso. 'J his oamora is actually Bwallowod by the patient, and no sooner doea it reach his stomaoh than tho walla thoreof aro Illuminated by a email electric lamp attached to tho apparatus. At bho bottom of tho camera Is wound a photographic film 20in long and a quartor of an Inch wido, and ono ond ot this film is fastened to tho cord, which runa frooly in tho tnbo. Of courso tho cord and tho conducting wircH must bo swallowed with tho oamora itself, for, in order to draw tho film past tho lone, tho cord must bo pulled. As soon as tho camera roaches tho bottom of tho stomach tho work of photographing may begin. All tho surgeon has to do is to pull tho cord, and thus run tho iilm past the lons, Tho eloctrio lighb is then turned on, and afcor tho sonHltivo flliri has boon jrnproßsod with tho imago tho current is turnod off, and another Hootlon of tho film is brought into play until bho requisite number of pictures have been obtained. When thiß 1b dono tho enbiro apparatus ia withdrawn from the stomaoh, and tho films aro carefully doveloped and onlargod.