The Telephone in Surgery
from Nature Magazine, vol 95, p. 92, 1915.(A telephone attachment in surgery) 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 peice 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.
(The author, Sir Mackenzie Davidson's) attention was first directed to the use of the telephone as an auxiliary in surgery 32 years ago…to determine, by means of the induction balance, the position of the bullet in the body of President Garfield when he was assassinated in 1881…
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