Living Animal Lit Up from Within.
At a recent soiree in the Paris Observatory, M. Trouve showed a live fish with its body lit up from within by his electric polyscope, a minute form of which, with .conducting wires passing to 1 the hands of the bperator, the animal had been caused to swallow (comfortably, let us hope). The whole body became transparent in the dark, so that the vertebra could be counted, and all the details examined. This instrument promises to have many uses. Among others, it has already been applied] La Nature says, to showing students the texture of the rectum and bladder, to facilitate extraction of a projectile at the back of the nose, to examine the stomach of a .bull (in which a gastric fistula was formed), to lighting the interior of shells and cannon for examination ; also to lighting powder magazines, in which ease the reflector is enclosed in a triple envelope of glass.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1582, 18 March 1882, Page 29
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159Living Animal Lit Up from Within. Otago Witness, Issue 1582, 18 March 1882, Page 29
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