RADIO SURGERY
BRILLIANT NEW INVENTION. A DOCTOR'S CLAIMS. Bloodless human surgery .« no- ' complished by a radio knife wh'Ch has been perfected by Dr. Cleveland H. Shutt, former hospital commissioner of St. Louis, now a member of the surgical staff of Deaconess Hospital in that city, states a Vancouver exchange. Dr. Shutt has been using the raoio knife, which scientists call an endotherm, for more than a year in private practice, and only recently revealed its use in a series of fiva operations in Kansas City. The greatest advantage gained from the instrument, according to its inventor, is the absolute destruction of infectious germs present in a case such as cancer. The prevention of blood flow he rates as of secondary importance. “It really is a misnomer to cal! it a- knife and say that it cuts,” Dr. Shutt says, “as a matter of fact, we still are in the dark in trying to explain just how it works. The mystery of the radio knife Dr. Shutt, attributes to the radio character of his apparatus. It is operated from a special electrical contrivance that is nothing but a small-scale radio broadcasting outfit
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 26 November 1927, Page 10
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191RADIO SURGERY Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 26 November 1927, Page 10
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