INTRICATE APPARATUS BENEFIT TO STUDENTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1082, 20 September 1930, Page 16

INTRICATE APPARATUS BENEFIT TO STUDENTS

WATCHING SURGICAL WORK j INTERESTING DISCOVERY a I ” Sydney medical students will ! s , shortly be able to witness intricate e ' surgical operations and hear the com- : ments of the surgeon while he is at r - work in the next room. - This ha 3 been made possible by the ’’ invention of the scialyscope, which H ! was first used in Paris last October. 0 I The scialyscope is an extension of ! | the principle of the shadowless lamp, n ; which is used in operating theatres y to prevent shadow of the surgeon’s , j hands from being thrown on any part r j ! of his work. Many famous surgeons refuse to e ' operate in the presence of students, who consequently lose the opportunity of observing some of the finest surgii cal work. The scialyscope embraces a shadowless lamp and, in addition to throwing a shadowless light, picks up the image of the operation, magnifies it three times and, by means of a series of lenses, throws it, in natural colour, on to a circular screen in the ° next room. 1 A control enable:; the observers in the next room to focus the apparatus n and if the surgeon wishes to describe n his operation a microphone can be n used to broaccast his words to the r observers in the next room. n A well-known Auckland surgeon ‘ stated this morning that the scialvn scope would be most expensive and, n . if an installation were made in Xew - ; Zealand, it would probably be done n at the Otago University. j There are not many students in j Auckland and these can usually be I accommodated in the operating ■ i theatres here. The installation such i as that for Sydney would be costly, as each shadowless lamp costs bee tween £7O and £BO. s Some of the Sydney operating e theatres, though smaller than the y average theatres in Auckland, have 1 galleries from which the students „ watch the operations and leave and d | enter without disturbing the surgeon jat work.