X-ray machine for frontline medics
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Title (Dublin Core)
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X-ray machine for frontline medics
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Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
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Title: Front-line X-ray
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Subtitle: Ends probing for bullets
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extracted text (Extract Text)
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Porras X-ray field units that can
be moved directly to the front lines
by plane or jeep are saving lives on all
United Nations battlefields. Developed
by the U. S. Army Medical School and
Picker X-Ray Corporation, they elim-
inate one of the principal causes of
death from wounds—the added shock
of surgeons’ probing for bullets, shrap-
nel, or shell fragments. For one of
these units, which weighs 398 pounds
complete, not only locates the metal in
40 seconds, but at the same time also
calculates its exact depth under the skin.
‘Within eight minutes
of delivery in a combat
area, an entire outfit can
be put in operation by
two nontechnical Army
privates. A color scheme
is utilized to facilitate quick packing, unpack-
ing, and installation of
the unit, and a small
portable gasoline elec-
tric generator supplies
it with the necessary
power for the operation
of the X-ray lamp.
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1943-08
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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123
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public Domain (Google Digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Matteo Ridolfi
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 143, n. 2, 1943
