HEART BEAT

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXX, Issue 275, 26 November 1935, Page 3

HEART BEAT

MEDICAL EXHIBITION WONDERS OF HUMAN MACHINE LONDON, October 26. It is rieally a pity that laymen are not allowed into the annual London medical exhibition, which a few have been privileged to see. It is more fa&cinating oven! than the motor show, for itl deals with a machine more wonderful than a car —the human machine.

There you may watch your own heart beating—lts pulsations, with their tell-tale irregularities, translated into a dancing line of light—see how

- germs are “ boiled. lt|o death” in) your I body by the application of an electric J current, and watch poison being extrlcated from bee sings to make a remedy for riieuiniatism. I There is an apparatus which enables 1 the deaf to hear through their bones; I clamp it to your elbow or your ankK, qomnect it! with a radio set and you will hear perfectly. There are cun'ning-ly-faslhioned copper masks for restoring the faces of those disfigured by accident or disease. What partieulaTfly j attracted visitors was a pair of speci taeles which enables you to read a I book propped on your chest while lyI ing fiat on your back gazing at the ceiling. Reading in bed made a hixI ury at last!