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IN a leading article on the uses of the film for medical education, the Lancet (601, Nov. 4, 1944) reminds us that Dr. Braun filmed the mammalian heart in 1897 and, in that year also, Schuster, of Berlin, filmed the abnormal gait of some of his patients. The first surgical operation was filmed by the famous French surgeon, Doyan, in 1898. Yet in 1941, the Lancet directed attention to the fact that academic circles in Great Britain had then scarcely noticed "this new weapon". Those who were medical students in Manchester in the days of that great and progressive teacher of physiology, Prof. William Stirling, will remember the thrill they had when Stirling returned one day from Paris, to which he was a frequent visitor, with a film of trypanosomes in the blood. This must have been about 1906–10.
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The Cinematograph Film in Medical Education. Nature 155, 198 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155198c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/155198c0