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IN the Lancet of January 30 is published an address by Sir James Mackenzie Davidson, delivered before the Medical Society of London, on the telephone attachment in surgery. By this phrase the author refers to the attachment of a telephone receiver to a probe, or lancet, or other metallic instrument used by a surgeon when exploring a wound containing a bullet or other piece of extraneous metallic matter, in such a way that the sound heard in the telephone when the probe comes into contact with the bullet enables the surgeon to make certain of the position of the bullet in the wound.
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The Telephone in Surgery . Nature 95, 92–93 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095092a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/095092a0