WIRELESS WONDER

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXVI, Issue 7908, 28 September 1929, Page 2

WIRELESS WONDER

DIAGNOSIS BV PHOTOGRAPHY A FATAL DISEASE DEATH SENTENCE PASSED Australian and N.z. Cable. BERLIN, September 26. Wireless photography and wireless telephony were employed ,in a remarkable consultation between doctors in Berlin and Buenos Ayres. Dr. Pavia, an Argentinian, who is at present in Berlin, had the photograph of a patient’s eye wirelessed to Professor Castex, a Buenos Ayres specialist, to whom was telephoned an account of the symptoms. The photograph was received clearly and Dr. Castex diagnosed the disease as a fatal case and incurable. The patient is unaware that a specialist 8000 miles away read his death warrant.