| Show SHOWS PROGRESS there are none who will deny that scientific men have exhibited marked progress in their manipulations of electricity both in ID the field of dynamics and illuminants as aa well as aa in ID medical appliances but the recent process of lighting up the interior of the human stomach with an lili candee cent lamp suggests aug geato a new plan of opera tion fr the doat its re the idea worked out through the practice of laundering the stomach which has como come into vogue recently and in many instances has been attended with wonder ful success when ii it became generally known that a half balf inch tube could be injected into the stomach through without serious inconvenience those interested in therapeutics es conceived the notion that this means of communication ni with the interior man could be utilized in more ways way than one so BO they set got their wits wito to work the electrical current can be transmitted tran emitted by a flexible conductor and therefore the task in this line was comparatively easy it to la stated that the result i have proved very satie satisfactory fActory in several instances one interest log experiment by DA D abrams aabrami professor of pat pathology hol la in the cooper medical college at san francisco era n ilsoo merely for the information of students was made on saturday night the professor put a covered telephone wire down the subjects j abro t and the throbbing of the heart could be listened to by telephone then hallowed fallowed fall foli owed the insertion jofs of a flexible tube containing a wire arranged far ajr the production of an electric light at the end the stomach was then chen with water and a current of electricity applied from a storage battery the result was waa that in the darker darkened ved room the abdominal section of the subject looked like a pinkish calfred globe with a lighted candle inside the claim is that by this means the presence of cancer and tumors on the anterior walls walla of the stomach can be sally easily detected and the true nature of any ulceration be determined also that the presence and kind of many ID injurious Jurious substances can be secer ascertained so go as to be dealt with knowingly while at present the concealment by the stomach leads ta t much medical experimentation before the real trouble is in discovered no doubt if this application can be made of practical use it will be a source of satis fac tion to doctors doctora to know that they emu can examine an ulcer in the stomach wit witti as aa much oare care an they oan can I 1 investigate a boll on the back of the neck or will be a means of comfort to those afflicted with diseases to realize that the treat of trouble can be made as aa via ihle to the eye as a corn on the great toe yet there are some patients abose squeamishness will be aroused at tile the prospect of having a lamp shoved down their throats to see what all alia them just juat the same there Is steady advance in the adaptations of the electric ele otrio current and mingled wit with many useless fain fada and notions will be round found some practical hints of great value to mankind |
