Word: photos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discomfort, Henry Harrington's pains might indicate cancer. But with x-ray there was no way to tell until the cancer should attain a considerable mass. Last week Dr. John Falenks of Manhattan went to the physicians' aid with something new to the U. S. Named "Gastro-Photo," it was a stomach camera invented in Vienna by F. G. Bach and Dr. D. J. Heilpern, already in use at the University of Vienna's Wenckel Bach Clinic...
Physicians led lanky Henry Harrington into an operating room, stood him up against a wall. Patient Harrington took a look at the Gastro-Photo, grew nervous. "Open your mouth wide," commanded Dr. Falenks, forthwith thrusting into his mouth a metal cylinder two inches long and one-half inch thick, attached to a long rubber tube. Punctured by 16 pinholes, the cylinder contained a tiny flash bulb and two pieces of film...
...would show humps as whitish and holes as dark blurs, thus reveal the first sign of cancer or ulcer. Philadelphia physicians withheld comment until the films should be developed. But everyone knows that the sooner a cancer is discovered and treated the better. Dr. Falenks was sure the Gastro-Photo marked a noteworthy advance in the incessant cancer...
...York University. During the seven years he has worked on radiovoting, sometimes in the secrecy of New Jersey's woodlands, many a corollary idea has struck him. One is to use infra-red radiation ("dark light") for voting in theatres, with a battery of infra-red projectors and photo-electric detectors on the stage measuring the audience's reaction as in pitch-darkness each member holds up a hand reflector-gilded (reflecting) side for "yes," black (nonreflecting) side...
...Photo Competition