MAN SWALLOWS LAMP AND TWO CAMERAS
NOVEL TEST ON CONVICT
A. convict, who was once sentenced ! to the electric chair for murder, but is now serving a life term at Sing-Sing State Prison, New York, recently made a notable contribution to science. He swallowed a thin rubber tube, two tiny cameras, and a quartz glass i containing a light of 6,000 candlepower, thus permitting photographs of his stomach to be taken. Nearly 100 physicians and surgeons j assisted' at the experiment, which was ' made in the interests of cancer re- \ search. ! The convict was chosen because be : had recently been operated on for j gastric ulcer, and it was desired to . ascertain how the part operated on 1 was healing. No 111-Effects The man said he felt no ill-effects of swallowing the apparatus. The invention of a Vienna specialist, this consists of a rubber tube about five-eighths of an inch in diameter. Near the end is attached one of the cylinder-shaped cameras equipped with lens and film. The | camera is less than tw o inches long | and one half an inch in diameter.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 582, 7 February 1929, Page 15
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183MAN SWALLOWS LAMP AND TWO CAMERAS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 582, 7 February 1929, Page 15
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