SWALLOWING A CAMERA
INTERNAL PHOTOGRAPHS
PICTURES BY FLASHLIGHT
NEW IDEAS IN DIAGNOSIS
SCIENTISTS’ INVENTION By' Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 5,5 p.m. London, Feb. 7. A camera which the patient swallows and photographs the interior of the body was demonstrated successfully at Saint Mary’s Hospital. The invention of two young Australian scientists, it consists of a flexible tube carrying. 16 pinhole cameras, the whole occupying about two inches. When the patient swallows the camera light by means of the tube is introduced, lasting part of a second and giving a flash of 200,000 candlepower. This Is sufficient io take 16 photos, each the size of a piece of confetti.
When the photographs are enlarged 100 times and pieced together they give a complete picture of the interior of the body. Each, camera costs £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, the flash giving light with heat. One wire within the 'tube carries current for the flash and the other operates tiny shutters.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 February 1931, Page 5
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