The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1909-11-27
TO AID N SURGERY
Moving Pictures Latest lnnova-
ton In Study Of Physical lie
Pisnnsd TO Furnish Films Of Rars ans
piMcult Surgical Operations to
Medical Associations Of


ing-picture camera has giveD the edu.
cationai world great impetus. II y
now proposed to furnish 6lms of rare
and difficult surgical operations and
the treatment Of different diseases 70
the county medical associations
throughout the country. For some
time d. L. Blake Baldwin. the city
physician. has been experimenting. IN
collaboration with local COMPANY.
at their laboratories. and Aims havs
been made which in their cootinuity
Of exposure show the growth Of
germs in such = manner that . physa.
clan in some crossroads town may
nov study them ~ carefully In his
home village, a. hs could II he had
the time and money TO spend wesks Of
study in some foreign city.
DR.. l. Blake Baldwin's nrst work
along this line was in the study oe
locomotor ataxia and paralysis asi-
tans. by means Of moving.picturs
films showing the muscular actions
peculiar to them. ~ well a. hemi-
pleEia and Huntington's chorea. Each
day. during the treatment. Q patient
was made to 20 through the same sx-
ercises and moving pictures were
taken of the progress OF the disease
or of the cure, ~ the case might be.
and shortly the Aims will be ready to
send broadcast for the benefit Of the
medical fraternity ~ well ~ for the
education of the public. Films arc
now being produced BY the Selig
Polyscope Company showing the
causes, the symptoms and the cure
for the white plague. and doubtless
some night when you part with 6ve
cents to visit = moving picture show.
instead Of seeing q tram hold-up or
comedy. you will learn how to avoid
consumption or how to cure It and
will 90 home with more real informa-
ton on the subject than you could
otherwise have gained.
In connection with the taking Of
regular moving pictures. William
Selig has harnessed powerful micro
scope to the moving-picture camera.
and in collaboration with Dr.. Victor
d. Lespinasse has been. making films
showing the movement Of the typhoid
bacilh the Asiatic cholera vibrio and
tuo tuVCuAoSiUu 3nu 8tVWkh VI 8ctu Ss
in culture media. BY means Of .
device on the camera. regulated by
clockwork, the moving-picture camera
makes only ono picture each hour.
showing the growth Of the culture.
and by this means = aim can b
shown on the screen in i've or ten
minutes that may have taken months
to photograph.
It IL not practicable. in study. for
more than few people at time to
observe carefully growths such -
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 the
movement Of typhoid bacilli magnifed
to about $40 diameters on the moving.
picture Aim. and each Of these little
pictures, about an inch square, will
be enlarged to about fifteen feet on
the screen where II Il viewed.
In surgery the moving pictures will
present to physicians everywhere tho
rare and dificult operations which
very few could otherwise witness, and
with the new advances which are be-
ing made In aim color photography
they may soon be able to show In
color replica. cfaniotomy for brain
tumor. the growth and cure Of cancer
Of the sesophagus. or the extremely
rare pneumotomy ian operation ON
the lungs BY means OF . sauerbruch
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