318949.1394 This is one of a series of four cyclegraphs (two are cyclegraphs, two are chronocyclegraphs) of a surgeon at New York hospital in 1913. This image is a cyclegraph, and looks like a tying of a knot; there is a no. 11 in the picture, which lo...
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content: Category: surgical & dental study
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content: Gilbreth image: 615-127
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content: Job name: New York Hospital
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content: Job number: 615
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content: Related captions: 615-113 Surgeon sewing up wound. Two and one half stitches thru the right hand; forceps holding tissue with left hand. Needle pulled thru the tissue with index and thumb of left hand.615-114 Two stitches with medium hagedorn needle and needle holder. The stitch was not tied and caught in the middle of the movement making it irregular.*615-115 Sewing with right hand. Needle passed towards operator. Forceps holding tissue in the left hand.615-115A Cyclegraph of sewing in dummy operation in surgery.Practicing surgery in dummy operations. ASewing up and abdomen.615-118 shows motion studies of surgeons performing a dummy operation in our laboratory. Note the two clocks. One revolves in three seconds and the other in one minute. By the use of two clocks we are enabled to insure having no error in the time, as it would be quite out of the question for the two clocks to be wrong and still agree. This picture shows the motions of tieing a suture.*615-119 Studying signals for positioning and grasping of tools in surgery.615-120 This series are positioning and also surgery.615-121 Taking ligature from assistant and tieing two knots around artery clamp.615-122 Medium sized hagedorn needle held on the flat between thumb and middle finger. In the preceding pictures the needle was held on edge.615-122A Pictures of sewing an abdominal operation taken on a dummy operation.Operator taking clamps form assistant and placing the clamps on blood vessels.615-123 Cyclegraph of two hands of an expert surgeon on a dummy operation imitating sewing.Two and one half stitches, small hagedorn needle passed with right hand. Forceps holding tissue with left hand. Needle pulled thru tissue with index and thumb of left hand.615-128 Right hand left wound. Took sponge stick from nurse. Returned to wound. Sponged twice. Put sponge stick on tray and returned right hand to wound.615-129 Operator took gauze pad from nurse. Sponged wound. Removed pad from wound, and sponged again. Put pad on tray. All of this with right hand which then returns to wound.615-132 Chronocyclegraph of famous surgeons in their work of standardizing surgery; taking artery clamp off the artery and putting it on the tray. Takes it off with left hand.615-133 Assistant puts artery clamp on hand of operator. Operator attaches it to artery and drops it.615-134 ASignal for scissors.615-138 Signal for scissors.615-142 Motions of a doctor stitching an abdominal wound. This is not an actual operation.Motion Study in Surgery. Practice surgery on dummies. Sewing an abdomenStudies of the motions of surgeons of the New York Hospital in our work of revolutionizing the work of surgeons.615-144 Studies of the motions of surgeons of the New York Hospital in our work of revolutionizing the work of surgeons.
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Perkins, James Secor
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content: Gilbreth, Frank Bunker, 1868-1924
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content: Gilbreth, Lillian Moller, 1878-1972
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content: Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Collection
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content: Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Collection / Series 2: Glass Stereo Slides (Positive) / 318949.1239 to 318949.1423
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1913
container: label: Container
content: Box 9
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Negatives