Cinemagazine items: A hospital bed has a “mattress” of sand, and supply of air under pressure to fluidline it, moulding it to the shape of the bocy; let the bath water go and you’ll see the principle of a new machine to separate coal from rock; sometimes a badly broken leg bone will never “knit”, even if the broken sections are held together with a plate; a Birmingham surgeon has designed a frame for a broken leg which seems to heal very severe fractures by affecting the electrical charges in the bone.
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In ACMI's collection
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
323337
Language
English
Subject categories
Archival, Cinemagazines & Newsreels
Archival, Cinemagazines & Newsreels → Archival materials
Archival, Cinemagazines & Newsreels → Cinemagazines
Documentary → Documentary films - Great Britain
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Body, Human
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Bones
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Hospital care
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Medical sciences
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Patient care
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Medical sciences
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Technological innovations
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)