Posted on 12/22/2016 8:45:34 AM PST by BenLurkin
A s far back as 400 BC, Hippocrates advised his students to smell their patients’ breaths to detect if they were ill.
Now, researchers in America have invented a system which does just that, only rather more scientifically.
A new analyser uses nano-rays to determine the precise chemical composition of a person’s breath.
From that it is able to detect the “signature” of any of 17 serious diseases, from kidney cancer to Parkinson’s disease.
Exhaled breath contains nitrogen, carbon dioxide and oxygen, as well as small amounts of more than 100 other chemicals, but the relative amount of each substance varies depending on a person’s state of health.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Can it detect liberalism?
Heck yeah — it’s calibrated very well for fecal scatogens.
[Can it detect liberalism?]
Yes, but only if you stick the breathalyzer in the other end of the test subject...
The proper term is cranialrectal inversion syndrome.
...and I always thought the one the cop had was bad...
“Well you won’t bleed him, you won’t cup him, you won’t divine his humors. For all you charlatans know, this poor man is both phlegmatic and bilious.”
Pretty poor Telegraph article, with lots of details missing.
I think the company is based in Vancouver, BC, Canada and the professor is from a top Israeli university.
They don’t seem to want to give credit where it is due.
There is an on-going scandal over a company called Theranos, who claimed they had invented a device that could detect dozens of diseases and problems with one drop of blood.
Gathered lots of money from silicon-valley VC funds, had Henry Kissinger and George Schultz on their board. Had a slick, young woman as founder - a theme which the liberal media absolutely loved.
And it all turned out to be a fraud and scam
bttt
What the heck is a nano ray?
There is no other test for kidney cancer, aside from expensive imaging that is not a part of normal checkups.
Kidney cancer is usually caught, too late, because of other problems or outward symptoms that usually don't appear until stage 4.
This could save a lot of lives.
Good doctors start their diagnosis of a patient when they walk into the exam room.
They look, listen, smell, touch the patients and listen with their stethoscopes.
A few years ago a couple we knew had a new doctor.
On their first office visit, the doctor sat behind his desk, never shook hands or touched his patients or used a stethoscope. He entered data into his computer and sent them home to hear from him.
Our friends were impressed until my wife an office nurse for 35 years asked them why did they even see the doctor. They could have stayed home and used a computer on the internet.
They found a new doctor after their second visit which was a replay of their first visit.
“What the heck is a nano ray?”
Well, we called my grandma “Nano.”
If you misbehaved in her presence, her death stare would freeze you in your tracks.
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