Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 284, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1920 — Use Film in Surgery [ARTICLE]

Use Film in Surgery

Preparation For and Carrying Out of Operation Shown. I* Especially Useful for Students as Instructor Can Explain Every Move Made. New York,— Many prominent physicians and the student body of the New York Homeopathic Medical College attended the unique celebration of National Homeopathic day at the New York Homeopathic Medical College and Flower Hospital, Avenue A, between Slxty-thlrd and Sixty-fourth streets. Interest centered around the exhibitions of herniotomy under local, anesthesia- by Dr. Fred A. Kelly of Detroit, surgeon of the Grace hospital of that city and President of the Michigan*' State Homeopathic society. The application of local anesthesia* which means the deadening of the nerve centers in the region of the operation without causing the patient to lose consciousness, to herniotomy, which included operations for hernia and rupture, is something entirely new in medical science. The first demonstration was a four-reel moving picture showing every detail of preparation and actual carrying out of the operation as performed by Doctor Kelly and ids assistants in the Grace hospital in Detroit This moving picture

reel Is especially useful in that one who understands the operation can stand and explain every move made to students land surgeons Interested and also in that it has the advantage over the actual operation itself In thatthe entire operation or any part of it can be reviewed as many times as is desired by the Instructor or student The picture was followed by a demto, .nd dlwrammlng Imgolulfle. la the heart The advantage of this apparatus is that the part attached to necting wires, the results of the test may be recorded on the machine in tbs hospital miles away. This does away with the necessity of carrying about the entire apparatus, it being necessary to have on hand only the part attached to the patient’s arms and legs. The final demonstration was tbs performance in the operating room of the Flower hospital of an actual operation by Doctor Kelly after the manner described In the motion picture shown earlier In the afternoon. The operation was successfully performed upon an Ulfixiate of the hospital, who bad recently been brought Into the hospital suffering from rupture. ■ -