July 2, 2009

If Ruptured… (Sep, 1930)

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Source: Physical Culture ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Sep, 1930
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If Ruptured…

LET ME SEND YOU A FREE SAMPLE OF A STRANGE AIR-BREATHING, FLESH-SOFT SUBSTANCE THAT IS USED IN, A DEVICE THAT HAS ENDED TRUSS TORTURE. FOR THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE, BE MODERN! DON’T WEAR DIRTY LEG STRAPS, LEATHER PADS, HARD RUBBER CUSHIONS OR SEVERELY STRAPPED BELTS ANY MORE.

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February 22, 2009

Have Your Next Tooth Filled Electrically! (May, 1932)

Filed under: Medical — @ 11:58 pm
Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: May, 1932
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Have Your Next Tooth Filled Electrically!

NEXT year when you go to a dentist to have a tooth filled he may connect the cavity up to a small dynamo and fill your tooth electrolytically with gold or silver, in the same way that metal articles are gold or silver-plated.

Dentists are working along these lines because the prevailing method of making gold inlays involves the use of wax impressions, which frequently are slightly inaccurate, leaving unfilled pockets in the tooth as a source of future trouble. Cavities would be coated with chemically pure graphite as an electric conductor, filled with an electrolytic liquid bearing a solution of a gold salt, and the current turned on to deposit a perfect filling in the tooth.

November 13, 2008

Brain Waves Are Measured with Radio Amplifier (Dec, 1936)

Filed under: Medical, Origins — @ 1:07 am
Source: Popular Mechanics ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Dec, 1936
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Brain Waves Are Measured with Radio Amplifier

With an ordinary radio set for an amplifier, a young scientist at London is measuring brain waves. A fairly regular electrical wave emanates from the human brain during normal thought, but the waves diminish during sleep. The intensity of the waves is measured on an electric meter, enabling research men to study the relative intensity of thought processes.

October 29, 2008

DOCTOR BY RADIO (Aug, 1953)

Filed under: Medical, Radio — @ 12:54 am
Source: Mechanix Illustrated ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Aug, 1953
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It’s telemedicine! Well, sort of.

DOCTOR BY RADIO

DR. GUIDO GUIDA, 60, founder and unpaid head of Rome’s International Radio Medical Center has treated patients via radio from his own home for 17 years. Career began when childhood friend died at sea. Italian government recently assigned six Naval operators to aid him.

October 20, 2008

Alcohol No Danger to Kidneys (Oct, 1932)

Filed under: Medical — @ 3:50 pm
Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Oct, 1932
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Alcohol No Danger to Kidneys
THE traditional idea that alcohol is bad for the kidneys, the heart and arteries, is exploded by experts of the American Medical Association. If alcohol injures these organs traces of these injuries should be found in the bodies of drunkards at the post-mortem examinations. Instead of this the evidence is that the hearts and kidneys of drunkards are better than the average condition.

October 18, 2008

Bee Sting Makes Youth Human Film (May, 1935)

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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: May, 1935
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Bee Sting Makes Youth Human Film

WITH a skin as sensitive as a photographic film, Robert J. West sunburns severely after a few minutes exposure to sunlight. In an effort to diagnose his own ailment he has switched his studies in the University of California to a course of physiology.

No part of his body is immune in its reaction to sunlight; exposed for a period of three minutes, his skin crisps and forms painful blisters. Consequently, when in the open, he either muffles himself in a heavy overcoat and pulls his hat low over his eyes, or he insulates himself with a covering of red, sun-resistant Cellophane.

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October 5, 2008

New Instrument Makes Eye Muscles Stronger (Sep, 1939)

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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Sep, 1939
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New Instrument Makes Eye Muscles Stronger

Although it might well be some particularly avid photographic fan having quite a bit of difficulty focusing his candid camera, the odd photograph above actually shows a patient strengthening his eyes with the aid of a new optical instrument developed recently by scientists attached to the research staff of the American Optical Company, in South-bridge, Mass.

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September 13, 2008

Science Transplants Babies (Jan, 1948)

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Source: Mechanix Illustrated ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jan, 1948
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Science Transplants Babies

BY LESTER DAVID

The embryo conceived by one mother has been removed from her womb, stored by refrigeration, then transplanted to another mother for normal birth. Mother’s name Is “Mrs. Rabbit”—some day it might be Mrs. Jones.

IF YOU could mate a man and a woman—could let the embryo get just a start, then transfer it to the body of another woman to complete its prenatal growth and be born—that would start a revolution in human genetics, wouldn’t it!

It’s just been done with rabbits.

It certainly will be done next with cattle.

And just as certainly it will some day be possible with human beings!

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September 10, 2008

UNUSUAL BIRTHS (Feb, 1961)

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Source: Sexology ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Feb, 1961
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UNUSUAL BIRTHS

Nature rarely errs, but when it does the results are often most extraordinary.

by E. H. Herrick, Ph.D.

IF you are acquainted with identical twins, you have probably never thought of them as the result of a birth abnormality. Actually they are, though in this case they can consider themselves lucky.

Many of these abnormalities are not so fortunate, although we rarely hear of them. Most end up merely as another case in the records of clinics and hospitals unless they are quite extraordinary.

Identical twins develop from a single fertilized egg and grow as any other one for a time, but not for long. For some unknown reason, the early embryonic cells separate into two masses and a complete child develops from each.

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September 7, 2008

Vaporizer Works in Water Glass (Dec, 1938)

Filed under: Medical — @ 12:31 am
Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Dec, 1938
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Vaporizer Works in Water Glass

Hung from the edge of a glass partly filled with water, an electric vaporizing unit now available produces a medicated steam for inhalation by those suffering from respiratory ailments. The unit can be plugged into any alternating-current outlet.

August 11, 2008

Swallows New Camera to Get 16 Pictures of Stomach (Jul, 1934)

Filed under: Medical, Origins — @ 10:41 pm
Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jul, 1934
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Swallows New Camera to Get 16 Pictures of Stomach

A CAMERA so small that it can be swallowed without discomfort takes sixteen pictures of the inside of the stomach.

A two inch long metal cylinder contains the camera, a roll of film, and a tiny flash bulb capable of 20,000 candle-power illumination. The control plunger runs through a two-foot rubber tube attached to the cylinder.

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July 30, 2008

Solar Bath Apparatus Helps Cure Diseases of the Head (Jan, 1933)

Filed under: Impractical, Medical — @ 11:42 pm
Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jan, 1933
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Solar Bath Apparatus Helps Cure Diseases of the Head
NO, THE peculiar looking device in the photo at left is not a camera, nor even a telescope, although partially resembling both. It is a new solar bath apparatus for the head and has made a great hit with the medical fraternity of Germany. The main purpose of the device is to cure sicknesses of the head, like catarrh of the nose and throat or of the ears. It reposes on a stationary upright and has an opening in under side for a patient’s head. Affected person sits in a chair while taking treatments. An ultra-violet ray machine within throws artificial sunlight upon all parts of the head. Eventually, when fully tested and improved, it is expected to cure many of the illnesses of the head.

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