The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-06-20
MOVING PICTURES OF
SURGICAL OPERATION,
Philadelphia Proves Possibilities
of Indoor Photography.
GREAT SCIENTIFIC ADVANCE.
Photographs Made at Rate of 800
Minute Reveal Every Phase
of the Surgeons Work
Man Tainted.
GREAT SCIENTIFIC ADVANCE.

| REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
Philadelphia, June 19.-It has become pos
siole to make moving pictures indoors. At
ST. Josephs Hospital, one day recently,
| while surgeon operated, moving picture
| was taken of the operation under the direc-
| ton of S. Lubn. The Philadelphia invent
or's accomplishment is the first of the kind
on record. The photographs were made at
the rate of 100 a minute. and in the pale
and weak light it was hardly thought that
they would be good. But they We're devel-
cellent. :
This new field for the moving picture
Offers great possibilities. Because the first
set OF pictures happened to have a surgical
operation for their subject the vistas OPEN
ing up before the enthusiastic inventor are
so far vistas of surgery only. He only sees
as yet the value of his new work to the
physician. But that it will develop values
of other and equally important kinds there
can be no doubt.
VALUE TO THE PHYSICIAN is GREAT.
ms Will be its value to the physician:
lhere are certain surgical operations Of
great Importance and of great rarity. May
De not once IN five years will one of these
operations be performed in given hospital.
let 1t IS necessary for the students of med
i n,a.; at this hospital to know how the OPP
Grafton is done, so that they may. if the
occasion should arise, do it themselves some
gay: how. at present, do the students
learn about this operation? Only by verbal
u DE possible for them to learn about it?
by Its projection, as large as life from
turer. " Az
Thus it Is likely that hereafter a moving
picture apparatus will be as much a part
o,,- Ine parapaernalia of the instructor in
buttons and his anesthetic now. When he
shall wish to describe a rare operation he
VIII VIII not have to content himself with vague.
lights will fall. and on the white screen
the operation itself will be performed. bene-
hitting the students quite as much as though
they had been present at it, '''eA
A Photographic specialist, TO whom the
taxing or the pictures at St. Joseph's Hos
mad been possible to accomplish this un-
precedented feat. i' va
To. To three things" he said. "the photo
sraphs success was due These things
We're film of extraordinary sensitiyeness.
lens or extraordinary rapidity and a CAM
era peculiarly constructed-a camera of the
photoSrapher's own make-that admitted to
trs MN tremendous quantity of light"
The camera box was like feet in size.
ana the pictures taken each measured
one by three-quarters of an inch. 1t is
from such tiny pictures as those that life
size figures are thrown on the screen in the
theaters It took three men to operate the
strange and impressive.
FULL OPERATION TAKEN BY CAM
On the operating E tesIe unconscious Law
the patient. a woman. The etherizer.
dressed in white, stood at her head. The
operator, in white also, sent his knife
swiftly through the living flesh. and with
a notwithstanding sound the moving pic
ture man made photographs at the rate of
1.500 minute.
AT the end of the operation and of the
picture-taking a tall robust man, one Of
the Photographic assistants. fell suddenly
to the floor. His head struck sharp piece
of brass Blood gushed from a deep cut
beneath his eye. The ghastliness OF the
operation had been too much for him, and
he had toppled over in a faint