Actually it just occured to me... perhaps they are used for tuning heart strings! ZING! go the strings of my heart! :-D Rob Goodale, RPT Lasw Vegas, NV Robert Goodale wrote: > Being a university tech I sometimes wonder down to the union for > lunch. Today I took a detour and browsed the book store for a moment. > Having a large medical program the book store stocks an inventory of > supplies for med students labs and classes. In the display were > stethoscopes, forceps, kits for student nurses, sphygmomanometers, and > so on. Along with this were tuning forks! Huge ones, (very low > frequency), with sliding adjustable weights on the tines to adjust the > pitch. There were two different sizes and the label proudly announced > them as "highly accurate for the medical profession". > > I would find it hard to believe that these are used for testing > hearing since the objective of a university it to teach techniques > using current and modern equipment. So what would one use a tuning > fork for if one were studying modern medicine? Perhaps to scan a > patient's credit for paying the bill? > > Rob Goodale, RPT > Las Vegas, NV >
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