Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impoverishing his own land by driving Jewish brains from Germany, he is steadily enriching U. S. medicine. From Chicago, where he has been an associate professor at the University of Chicago medical school since fleeing Germany in 1934, came Dr. Rudolf Schindler to demonstrate his flexible gastroscope,only instrument which makes possible direct observation of a living stomach...
...other, are set more than 40 lenses. No matter which way the tube is bent within the patient, the lenses diffract the image at the bottom of the tube so that the physician has a clear view of the stomach wall as he twists the gastroscope. Insertion of the instrument is easy: the physician anesthetizes the patient's throat, grasps the gastroscope in both hands like a billiard cue, pokes the rubber end gently but firmly down the patient's throat and esophagus into his stomach. Examination lasts from three to five minutes, causes the patient slight...
Thanks to the efforts of two Harvard professors, the iron lung has developed from a useless contraption into an instrument indispensable to a modern hospital's equipment...
...Cologne Trio includes Karl Pillney, professor at the Cologne College of Music, who will play the harpsichord and who has revised and published several of Bach's works for this instrument; karl Schwanberger, professor at the same college and formerly a member of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, who specializes in the violoncello and viola da zamba; and Reinhard Fritsche, a wellknown flute and solo artist of the Bluethner Orchestra in Borlin...
...instrument Pillney uses is an exact reproduction of an old harpsichord. Unlike the piano, the harpsichord, the tone of which is suggestive of the guitar, has no hammers and its strings are plucked with little quills...