Word: incisional
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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The inner regions of the heart will no longer be sacred, for medical science has invented a "cardioscope" enabling physicians to see inside the beating heart. To Dr. Duff S. Allen, a young surgical assistant at Washington University, belongs the honor of having perfected the instrument. By making a slight...
The device is in reality a small microscope, about the size of a pocket flashlight, with a strong lens at one end and a powerful light at the other. A small incision is made directly over the heart, and the cardioscope inserted. It enables the surgeon to see the heart...