Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0137Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of a field hospital, three men stand beside the patiend on the table underneath a tent. Above the image "W122 (Star)" is printed, below the image "18608 French Field Hospital - Locating Bullet with X-Ray Machine." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company Copyrighted Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
18608 - French Field Hospital - Locating Bullet with X-Ray Machine.
We are looking at one of the most common scenes of the great war. Day and night streams of wounded trickle back form the front, and after a big battle the streams become torrents, thousands of men, with wounds of every descripiton - faces shot away, ribs caved in, legs torn off, lungs inflamed by poison gas, bodies burnt with fire - a sad and terrible procession.
Before us surgeons are using the X-Ray to locate the bullet in a wounded soldier. His life depends upon finding it promptly and with little probing. For this the X-Ray is invaluable - it projects a shadow of the bullet in the wound. As a furhter aid in locating the bullet a mechanism working on the plan of the telphone is used. One end of the circuit is attached to a bell and the other end is fastend to a silver thread attached to the probe. When the probe touches the bullet the bell rings. Many lives have been saved by this invention, which enables the surgeon to loact the bullet quickly and to extract it thorugh a small orifice.
Notice the rube at the surgeon's ear, leading to the bell on the X-Ray apparatus, so that he can hear instantly the first faint vibration. Observe the wire bringing the curent from the ambulance. We have before use no crude emergency outifit, but the latest and most complete scientific device for saving life.
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