A REMARKABLE CAMERA
SWALLOWED BY PATIENTS. PHOTOGRAPHS THE STOMACH. (United Press Association.) (By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, February 7. (Received Feb. 8, at 8 p.m.) A camera which is swallowed by a patient and photographs the interior of the body was demonstrated successfully at St. Mary’s-Hospital. It is the invention of two young Australian scientists and consists of a flexible tube which carries 16 pin-hole cameras, the whole occupying about two inches. When the patient swallows the camera a light by means of a tube is introduced, lasting a part of a second and giving a flash of 200,000 candle power. This is sufficient to take 16 photos, each the size of a piece of confetti. When the photcr; ?hs arc enlarged 100 times and pieced together they give a complete picture of the interior of the body. The cameras cost £l6O. They will be invaluable in cases of cancer of the stomach and abdominal ulcers, and will often prevent the necessity for an operation. The inventors had to overcome tremendous difficulties, including the pulsations of the stomach and a flash giving a light without heat. One wire within the tube carries the current for the flash, and the other operates tiny shutters.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21255, 9 February 1931, Page 7
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202A REMARKABLE CAMERA Otago Daily Times, Issue 21255, 9 February 1931, Page 7
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