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Originally Posted by Bilbo1967
Ooh, I remember reading this in a Bill Bryson book. When Garfield was shot, there were some bullets left in him. Alexander Graham Bell had invented a metal detector and used it to try to find the stray bullets. It failed, I seem to recall, because of the coil spring bed the President was lying on.
Is that it?
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Oh, very good, Bilbo! Correct right down to the bedsprings.
Bell actually specially (and quickly) developed the metal detector to look for the bullets. Garfield's doctors were sceptical, both of the device and of this new-fangled idea of Lister's that cleanliness was a good idea; instead they poked around with their fingers and made the infection even worse.
All yours.