Bisbee daily review., 1909-10-21
ID AID IN SURGERY
Moving Pictures Latest Innova-
 ton in Study of Physical Ills.
Planned to Furnish Films of Rare and Difficult Surgical Operations to Medical Associations of
 Country.

Chicago.--The invasion of the nov ing-picture camera has given the edu- cational world a great impetus. It Is now proposed to furnish films of rare and difficult surgical operations and the treatment of different diseases to the county medical associations throughout the country. For some time Dr. L. Blake Baldwin, the city physician, has been experimenting, in collaboration with a local company. at their laboratories. and films have been made which in their continuity of exposure show the growth of germs in such a manner that physi- clan in some crossroads town may now study them as carefully in his home village as he could if he had the time and money to spend weeks of study in some foreign city.
 Dr. l.. Blake Baldwin's first work along this line was in the study of iocomotor ataxia and paralysis agi- : tans, by means of moving-picture , films showing the muscular actions i peculiar to them, as well as hemi- plegia and Huntington's chorea Each day, during the treatment, a patient was made to go through the same ex- i ercises and moving pictures were taken of the progress of the disease or of the cure, as the case might be, l and shortly the films will be ready to send broadcast for the benefit of the medical fraternity as well as for the i education of the public Films are now being produced by the Sslig i Polyscope Company showing the causes, the symptoms and the cure for the white plague. and doubtless some night when you part with five cents to visit a moving picture show | instead of seeing a train hold-up or comedy, you will learn how to avoid consumption or how to cure 1t and will go home with more real informa ton on the subject than you could otherwise have gained.
 In connection with the taking oi regular moving pictures. William SeIig has harnessed powerful micro scope to the moving picture camera and in collaboration with Dr. Victol | D. Lespinasse has been making films [ showing the movement of the typhoid bacilli, the Asiatic cholera vibrio and the inoculation and growth of germ. in culture media. By means of z device on the camera, regulated bJ clockwork, the moving picture camera makes only one picture each hour 1 showing the growth of the culture 1 and by this means a film can bs shown on the screen in five or ter minutes that may have taken months to photograph.
 It is not practicable. in study, fol more than a few people at time tC observe carefully growths such al these, while hundreds of physicians cannot only see the film at the same time but see the details much more plainly A microscope will show tht movement of typhoid baciili magnifiet to about S70 diameters on the moving picture film, and each of these little pictures, about an inch square, vii be enlarged to about fifteen feet or the screen where it is viewed.
 In surgery the moving pictures vii present to physicians everywhere tn, rare and difficult operations whicl very few could otherwise witness, ant with the new advances which are be ing made in film color photograph, they may soon be abls to show il color replica, craniotomy for brail tumor, the growth and cure of canoe of the aesophagus, or the extremel
 rare pneumotomy tan operation ol the lungs by means of Sauerbrucl chamber).