WONDERFUL IF TRUE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2966, 2 January 1917, Page 9

WONDERFUL IF TRUE

The "British Medical Journal" g.ves some remarknblo particulars of an invention, by a sergeant ia the K.A.M.C., and working at a casualty clearing station in Prance. By birth a Scotsman, ho received h.s late education in America, where he graduated M.D., Ch.M., at the University of Washington. In broad daylight, we are told, it ie possible to eee the blood vessels in tho brain, to observe a blood clot in that organ, to detect abscesses in the liver and wounds or cuts »n any organ. In one case a "concretion" in the appendix was seen clearly when the picture was complete. There is no darkening of rooms, no flashing of lights, and no crackling of SDurk gaps. In fact, tho Tvholo proceeding is so br.ef and seemingly so simple that when the results are observed the first sensation is one of bewilderment. A patient is laid on a plain deal table (insulated by standing it on glass), a little clicking is heard in a cupboard hard by, and after CO seconds or eo the bearers are directed to remove him. Noting has been felt by the patient, little or nothing hitsbeen seen by the bystanders boyond'what has been noted, yet a visible record of the outline of a living organ has been conveyed to a wax sheet. "The inventor," says the "Bntisji Medical Journal," "believes that tho results are primarily duo to the fact .that the process interposes between two alternating electric fields of equal strength—and at tho precise point where they meet—a third electric field, whose facultative potential for.ee is thus released, and can be converted into dynamic power."