If the invention of two young Austrians, which is now being tried out at a London hospital, is found to fulfil expectations, it seems that sufferers from internal trouble will shortly be asked by their doctors to swallow a camera. The camera is about two inches long and half-an-inch thick, and in the course of a twenty seconds' visit to the patient's hinterland, it will take a complete series of sixteen photographs of the stomach. These, when they have been enlarged one hundred times, will give the doctor a very clear idea of what is happening, and the invention may well lead to a completely new line of investigation.
It is a relief to hear that the specialist who has tried it on himself reports that the camera is easy to swallow, and that he felt no ill-effects.
The Irish Times, February 12th, 1931.
