The device, described in a paper published recently in BioMed Central Women's Health, an online research journal, is an adaptation of a commercially available clockwork torch (flashlight).

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Other important lighting tools include the lamp, the torch and the flashlight.

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Several years ago, at age 60, my older cousin Torch (born at home by the light of a flashlight, or torch) had a seizure.

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