Upon the electrical experiments to determine the location of the bullet in the body of the late President Garfield; and upon a successful form of induction balance for the painless detection of metallic masses in the human body . as experienced in detectinga l)ullet held in the mouth by passing the exploring coil overthe cheek; and the presence of a flattened bullet licld in theclenched hand was also readily determined. Dr. J>liss, )Uin, and Surgeon-General Barnes visited the la,I)oratorynext day and expressed themselves as very hopefully impressedby the experiments. These were sul)s
Upon the electrical experiments to determine the location of the bullet in the body of the late President Garfield; and upon a successful form of induction balance for the painless detection of metallic masses in the human body . as experienced in detectinga l)ullet held in the mouth by passing the exploring coil overthe cheek; and the presence of a flattened bullet licld in theclenched hand was also readily determined. Dr. J>liss, )Uin, and Surgeon-General Barnes visited the la,I)oratorynext day and expressed themselves as very hopefully impressedby the experiments. These were sul)se(juently repeated in thesui-geonV ntom at the Executi\-e Mansion for the infoi-mationof Dr. Fi-ank Hamilton and Dr. Agnew, who also seemedfav( )ral )ly i mpressed. Such opinions from the surgeons in attendance upon the Presi-dent, and the continued intei-est sliown by Prof. Newcomb,encouraged me to pi-oceed with the experiments. It was now determined to test the effect of each convolutionof the primary coil, so as to arrive empirically at some idea of 1 I desire specially to express my gratitude to J)r. Frauk Haiiiiltou forwords of encouragement spoken at a later date when sympathy and encour-agement were greatly \s ^
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