Diagnosis: Let Me Dial Your Cardiogram

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Possibilities for Prevention. The possibilities that home ECGs will open up for preventive medicine are enormous. But even more important, in the imaginative view of PHS's Dr. Cesar Caceres, are possibilities for automating and computerizing half a dozen other tests which cannot yet be given routinely. The most obvious example is an electroencephalogram, or brain-wave recording. But there is virtually no limit to the capabilities of the Dataphone-computer combination. It can be adapted to measure and record muscle strength, the efficiency of air exchange in the lungs, and even make something scientifically precise of the crude knee-jerk reflex test.