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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16942, 2 March 1917, Page 6

A Midland munition works now. covering 65 acres was, not very many months ago, green fields. In some industries it is so common for workers to get a needle or a splinter into a finger. Dr Roscoe C. Webb, who has to treat many such cases, has, devised a very simple method of finding small foreign bodies in the fingers. A piece of black woollen cloth Bin square was fastened to a piece of adhesive-plaster of equal size, and in th 6 centre an oval opening was made measuring fin by £inl By placing this over an electric light supplied with a reflector, and placing the finger over the hole, excel lent transillumination is obtained, and, by. making pressure with a pointed instrument ov-er the suspected area, the objoct can be brought out more clearly. If the field be rendered bloodless while operating, the finger may be placed over the opening, and the object can again be accurately located. This is easier and simpler and less expensive than the X-rays, more effective than pocket flashlights, and has been in successful use for six months by several workers in the accident ward of a hospital