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PHOTOGRAPHING INTERIOR ■;• O#! : -. '" rV'..- ..BODY--;;- /:/-' :i -l
(Received 9th Febtuary, 2 p.m.) ' LONDON, Bth February.!. A camera -which a patient swallows and which photographs the interior of the body, was , demonstrated successfully at St. Mary's Hospital. , ; Tho invention of two young Australian scientists, it consists, of a flexible tube carrying sixteen pinhole- cameras, the whole occupying about tw» inches. When the patient swallows the camera alight is introduced by means of a tube.. It lasts for part of a second, giving £ flash of 200,000-candle.. power. This is,sufficient to take,sixteen photographs each the size of a piece of confetti. When, the. photographs, ar,e enlarged a hundred times arid pieced to» gether, they givel a complete -picture of -the1" interior of the body:; •*? ■ • ■" Each camera costs £160. They wilt be invaluable in cases of cancer .of t^e stomach and abdominal ulcers,'arid will often prevent the necessity for operation. ■-• ' . ■ ■■'■: The .inventors -had- to - oyereome:-tyV mendous.*difficulties,. including the*pulsations of the stomach and the fliidinj of a flash giving light enough without heat. ' One wire within the tube carries the current for the flashy and fht other operates the tiny shutters. .'•"■■■?-
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 33, 9 February 1931, Page 11
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188INGENIOUS CAMERA Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 33, 9 February 1931, Page 11
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