Application of plaster of Paris to patient suffering from cervical caries.

Date:
[1915?]
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Description

The film shows Dr. Henry Gauvain, the first resident Medical Officer of the Lord Mayor Treloar Hospital, and a nurse "fitting out" a little girl in a harness suspension with all-over plaster of paris bandaging. The treatment is for a form of deformity caused by spinal tuberculosis.

Publication/Creation

[1915?]

Physical description

1 videocassette (VHS) (7 min.) : silent, black and white
1 videocassette (DIGI BETA) (7 min.) : silent, black and white
1 DVD (7 min.) : silent, black and white

Notes

Film copy given to Wellcome by the Wessex Film and Sound Archive in 1989. It was copied from the 35mm nitrate stock original. A 16mm reduction print was copied from the 35mm.The captions are very indistinct and difficult to read, except in very subdued light; they explain each stage of the operation.

Creator/production credits

Lord Mayor Treloar Hospital, Alton, Hants.

Copyright note

Not known

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