Show a PHOTOS STOMACH fH M OSSINING N. N l. Y T. Dec 22 2 AP AP- AP Demonstration of or a a. gastro camera which takes pictures of the stomach from the inside was made mado before physicians and surgeons at Sing Sing prison tonight with a a. convict at the laboratory One of ot the doctors who wife arranged the demonstration said that the in invention invention in- in was expected to be of great aid In the study and treatment o of cancer cancer and stomach disorders The camera is the invention o of Franz Gerard of ot Vienna Austria Dr Lawrence Cremin n. n specialist o o o. Ossining was in charge of the demonstration Alexander a year old prisoner from Brooklyn Brooklyn Brook Brook- lyn ln serving r sentence of 20 years year to life swallowed the camera He lie was selected because he recently had been opera operated ted on for a a. gastric ulcer and the doctors wished to se see how the wounds had healed APPARATUS DESCRIBED The apparatus used consists of a rubber tube about 25 Inches Inches' long and about five-eighths five of an ins inch in diameter About two inches from the end of the hollow tube which Is shoved down the throat Is a small shaped cylinder camera two Inches long and about half halt an inch ins In diameter equipped with tiny lens ten and tiny films Just above the camera a short section of or the tube tub Is perforated and through it at this point In quartz glass runa runs run a a. fine wire This wire when the camera is operated lights up lik like e the wire In an ordinary electric lamp only more brilliantly Just above the perforated part o of the rubber tube is another camera tamer of the same type and size as the bottom one When the plunger i is pressed pressed the wire flares a flood o of light Illuminates the stomach anthe an anthe and the picture is snapped The tube tub Is then withdrawn through th the e throat HAS EIGHT FILMS There are eight films in each cast camera which combined would no not be larger than a II postage stamp With the one shot sixteen different differ differ- ent eat sections of the tits stomach are photographed on the sectional films The films are enlarged many fold for tor inspection The cameras are so constructed it was said that if they ever go got loose which was considered unlikely unlikely un un- likely they would pass through the body without difficulty The operation the doctors saide said is only a a. little more difficult than swallowing e 8 s. s stomach pump and i iwas it was believed would have no ill III effect on the patient This invention Is expected expect d to b bof be beof beof of great aid to medical science one of the doctors aiding in the demonstration said It It will by toy photography disclose a cancer ancer in it its very earliest stages A hundred thousand persons die yearly from cancers which in many cases i if it found in their their- earliest stages could be cut out or c cured red It will show shot corrosion growths and other unnatural unnatural un un- un- un I natural conditions |