The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-05
THE BI0GRAPH IN MEDICINE
4 NEW Am FOR DOCTORs IN STUDY
ING OBSCURE DISEASES.

fNt ObSft re DfSEASEs,
Operations Performed by Famous Surgeons
Also shown by the Kipetoscope-The In.
strument HRrnessed to the Telescope and
the Microscope-NoSel Effects Obtained.
Alrcady an institution in recording the notable
, scenes and occurrences Of the world kaleidoscope
or moving pictures are becoming useful for scien-
unc as well as for amusement purposes. In hos
pitals particularly. the invention is finding ap-
plication. One hospital in New York In now
adapting a machine to record infinitely tho ao-
tons Of patients in cpeptic fits and similar nf-
fcctions, and many moving pictures have been
taken showing the movements in walking Of
persons afflicted from locomotor ataxia. Repre-
duccd slowly On the screen doctors are enabled
to study the symptoms more carefully in their
Laboratories. And the pictures taken in Vienna,
showing operations being performed by famous
surgeons. become valuable instructors 10 medi-
cal students. II IL also in hospital work that this
invention with the microscope attachment. or
micro kaleidoscope is finding the greatest practi-
cal use. The movements Of all kinds Of microbes
when thus photographed make striking animated
pictures, and the action uf healthy and diseased
corpusclcs are easily distinguished when thrown
upon the screen and magniflcd thousands Of times.
Such pictures Of diseased blood. taken from time
To time show the improvement or decline In the
condition Of patients.
! II has just been found by one experiment that
| Xray photography, now 50 valuable in hospi-
| tails, may be wonderfully developed by the use
Of the biograph camera. as II is equally possible
10 take moving pictures with the penetrating
light. He believes there Is no function of tho
human body which may not he shown in action
by such pictures, to the beating Of the heart
and blood circulation.
/ Many Of the animated pictures tina, are exhb
tied now for their beauty alone will likely be use
fu In school instruction and lecture work, but the
diffculty, go far as was the case with the early
development 81 the phonograph. is that these
be brought within tho reach Of public instructors
as their possibilities and improvements bring
l One Of the novel subjects that will soon he put
on exhibition viii show infinitely TN. growth and
in full bloom To obtain such results as these
special room IL set aside IN the new Botanical
Gardens a, Bronx Park In order 10 show the
the biograph cameras and the growing bulb will
be arranged In position in this room and picture
thirty days and nights In order 10 get a uni.
form light for every view. artificial illumination
pictures will be made Of one subject. the anal
picture showing The opening Of the lily. and then
previously been obtained, they were not taken
work win 5e Snd;! ,hs diIeciiy Of T $ McGyesoT.
| kind, too. are being made to show rapidly tbs
| changes in scenery from winter To summer &c
| - The experiments Of Flamma rion. the celebrated
! French astronomer show the possibilities Of tho
hiograph for recording astronomical wonders.
He has taken moving pictures which show moon.
sunrise and sunset Professors Of astronomy
in Columbia College also realize the possbtie.
are improving extremely sensitive films ncc"ssary
10 take Impressions 81 the weak astronomical
rays OF light II is particular y the phenomena
Of the heavens seen at intervals ~ many years
strange eclipse, transit, or meteorc shower
which men travel far to observe, and which astron.
making il possible for thoss at home To otsers
the heavenly wonders that few now have the op-
portunily Of seeing
And as the microscope has bccn combined
with the bograph. so also the astronomers telr-
SCOPE lenses are being combined, that we may
see distant movements invisible To the naked eye.
Many Of the moving pictures Of naval actions
| which naturally could not have hccn taken ~
close range have resulted from the tclcscoric
Capt. John Finley, an expert on tornadocS.
now In the American meteorological service.
Of lightning storms, and expects To get som"
Another new and novel exhibit is a brilliant
display Of fireworks, taken at night Will"
IL has hitherto been impossible tn photograph
fireworks by the USE Of magnesium powder H.
bograph has faithfully recorded III" shower and
pnwhecl effects Of the most costly pieces made
An adventurous operator in Europe dr,l>.
the idea Of taking picture. from tlc bottom e,
the car OF a balloon in motion Us II assembled
rapidly successive pictures wcrr taken straight
downward showing the spectators. then tn'
country, fading rapidly. until all that could ls
seen were dark patches ON the earth
The oograph ga camera era, VAS ma, mad" +" perform
of Brooklyn Bridge tower "n" clear day II
was turned 81 as Ia take pictures IN every ,dircc-
every direction In the few moments i, takes 10
show these pictures on the screen the spectators
see a panorama covering something like i've
hundred square miles.