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Show j Locates the Pain I Vagrant aches and pains which often afflict the stomach and are hard to identify may now be accurately located lo-cated and classified by an instrument resembling a miniature seismograph, the device with which earthquake tremors are recorded. The pain finder, find-er, devised by Dr. W. C. Alverez of the University of California, is said to register the course of such ills in almost al-most any part of the abdomen and to clearly reveal every step of the diges five processes. By the recorder, tlip passage of food through the digesthh tract can be closely followed, and the exact spot and instant of the setting up of ady trouble definitely learned in a few minutes. The instrument, called the multiple-electro-entero graph, is said to obtain Its data by means of a pendulum swung in a vacuum tube and marks its records j with a needle. Popular Mechanics. |