BLOOD-WONDERS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1227, 8 September 1911, Page 2

BLOOD-WONDERS.

SHOWN PER ICINE3IATOGRAPH. • Something less than a year ago cabl« ' news was received recording the- fact that means had been found of kiueiuato- . graphing tho action of organisms in tho blood. To tho medical world (his discoy- • cry was said to lie of profound importanoe, as bv this means not, only was tho action '01. 'tho Various'- organisms shown,!;.; buf'tfie effect of various forms of treat-, nient on noxious organisms could bo ob-. served.' The man who first turned tho . kinemntograph' to practical use in this ■■ regard was Dr. Jean Comandon, of Pans,: who in taking pictures of tho blood'' (human and animal) used tho machine in' co-ordination with the ultra-microscope, and so achieved marvellous results. A scries of Dr. Comandon's pictures,..taken by Pnthe Freres, of Paris, were exhibited before a company of medical men at tho firm's studio, Hunter Street, yosterday afternoon, when for over an hour tho wonders of the blood ivero made manifest. "The Circulation of the Blood was the first picture, shown. On' a, screen about Gft. by Gft. a tiny section of flesh threaded by minute veins was Fhown. Mainlined, the veins became great canals, and the thread of blood corpuscles which rushed along in single file might havo been barges bumping along rapidly one after the other. Occasionally two veins would appear on the one picture, and m ono tho corpuscles, or blood cells, would be rushing along at such a high rate of sliced that it was difficult for the eye to separate them, whilst in the other they would be proceeding along with tho extremo leisure of a Dutch bargo on tho Jitivder Zee. Human blood globules are minute jellv-like circlets, the outline of which reflects the light perfectly against tho dark background of the serum, lli«jo globules or rod corpuscles are so small that flfiDO of them are contained mn, cubic millimetre. They float in pairs and clusters in the yerum-like tiny circles of light, whilst the rarer white corpuscles show out here and there ns a brilliant, solid, white object. Spirochaete, on .Infecting organisms of relapsing fever, wero shown in a variety of forms, as wero tho spirochaete of other diseases. There were about twenty medical men present, who signified their intense interest in the pictures by applause after each one was shown. At tho conclusion of the display the Hon. George Fowlds oxpressed thanks on behalf of those present for the interesting and instructive pictures shown by Messrs. Patho Freres.