REFLECTED OPERATIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 42, 15 March 1909, Page 4

REFLECTED OPERATIONS.

Sl'ltfiEOXS TRAINED BY MVJXC! PICTTTvES. [ An apparatus lias boon ravcntod hy [ llr. Oharlos Duncan, of New York. Try tlio use of which the st-eno of a surgical o|ioratioii performed behind a screen can be thrown on tlic screen hi natural ;-olors (<i be witnessed by medical students. ' Tire machine in I'.ilU-il a projectoseopo. ' n consists of a largo mirror suspended above the. operating talile and connected with a. righf-a-agled camera, bellows in which -is a series o't lenses. Thin layers of eheniieal fluids iivtcnsify red, orange. land green rays of liglit, and allow tlie undisturbed passage of natural colors. _ The. entire, scene of ail operation is reflected on the overload mirror, and liv means of other lenses is. thrown on the screen. The figures are life-size, and every movement is shown as faithfully us hy a camera obsciira. , Tlie apparallns -has bomi tested at the lalAiraf'orv of the Edison Company ill Xew York, in the presence of eminent medical, surgical, and scientific authorities, who pronounced it a complete sueci'ss. \Vhen installed in a hospital, it will obviate 'till), attendance of students at actual operations, and-permit a much larger number o£j*idonts to receive instruction in surgical teelmii|ue._ The scenes on the screen will he explained liv a lecturer, and several hundred Htude.nts will he aide- to _ follow even' movement in the operation as clearly as if thev were stationed ahove the operiiting-taide. It will lie possible, too, to take, biorfcopo pktluros of important operations for 'future use, hy i operating a- bioscope camera i-.i front ot the screen. In this way surgeons can have records of foreign medical niethoils for comparison, with their own.

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