https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/8c2c8735-c034-4fb3-91e4-ac61e75c6995 Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com Featuring the signature dulcet tones of narrator Westbrook Van Voorhis, this forum edition of the March of Time "New Frontiers of Medicine" focuses on advances in medicine in the early 1950's. Surgeons perform a blood transfusion for medical students, William Kolff's rotating kidney drum is put to use and electrodes monitor brain activity. The identification of RH blood type and invention of sulfamides are explored. It was created at time of great advances in American medicine. A trend is noted in the global pattern of study as European doctors began to travel to the US. Bellevue, Boston's Lahey Clinic and New York’s Psychoanalytic Institute get a tour. The episode is presented by the editors of Time Life Fortune (:10). A doctor enters the patient’s bedroom (1:03); house calls would end by the 1960's. He pulls a notepad to scribe a prescription (1:26), heading for the local druggist to fill the script (1:30). Sulfa drugs were discovered in the 1930’s paving the way for the antibiotic revolution. The view runs over various types of sulfonamides and streptomycin (1:35). Student physicians (1:41) witness an operation. Bellevue (2:17) public hospital is the largest and the oldest in the US; well known for its treatment of the mentally ill. Studies on the RH factor (2:34) led to new testing (2:41). A test slide follows (2:44). Blood drips in the vial for a blood transfusion for an RH positive patient (2:55). Willem Kolff's rotating kidney drum, an early dialysis machine, spins attached to a patient suffering from kidney disease (3:08). Electrocorticography (3:20) was pioneered in the 1950's. Electrodes are set on brain tissue (3:32). Nutrition studies from spring of 1947 (3:50) and an issue of the Journal of Nutrition (3:53) lead to lab rat studies (3:59). Dr. Henry Sherman of Columbia (4:02) investigates the effect of high quality diets implemented at early ages. Dr. Frederick J. Stare (4:19) begins a project for Newton Massachusetts schools (4:30). Youth learn how to monitor their own health (4:34). The 1951 study, "Organization and Administration of Group Medical Practice" conducted by Katherine G. Clark and Dean A. Clark (4:57) led to pooled medical services at Boston’s Lahey clinic (5:04). Frank Lahey; founder of the hospital, appears (5:16). Benefits of pooling are discussed (5:20). The New York Psychoanalytic Institute pushed farther into advancements set forth by Freud (5:48). Dr. Rene Spitz (6:10) relays the degradation of emotional and mental health in infants as it is separated from its mother too young. Charts relay annual figures on heart disease (8:17). Dr. Harold J. Stewart (8:24) discusses concerns. Patients suffered from ailments related to syphilis (9:41). A fluoroscope is put to use (10:04). X-ray photographs relay defects within the chest cavity (10:13). The electrocardiograph (10:23) is hooked up to a patient. Electrical currents are monitored (10:28). Charlie Abbott suffers from rheumatic fever; devastating to growing hearts (11:17). Dr. Homer H. Swift at Rockefeller Institute (12:26) performs tests to resolve complications from rheumatic fever. Harry Goldblatt (12:40) seeks cause for high blood pressure. Yale Medical School (12:47) and former Dean Dr. Milton Winternitz (12:51) conduct studies on the hardening of arteries. Signs warn of tuberculosis (13:02). Promotions for the annual "March of dimes" (13:26) precedes youth affected by polio (13:34). Statistics from cancer related deaths follow (14:01). Cancer cells multiply (14:17). Dr. James P. Murphy (14:30) studies cell makeup (14:34). Innovators in cancer research include Clarence Little (14:52) and Dr. Francis Carter Wood (14:58). Deep x-rays follow (15:19). Radium was introduced (15:22). Hospitals experiment with isotopes (15:32). Radioactive iodine (15:39) is administered in order to detect cancer of the thyroid. Doctors at New York’s Memorial Hospital (15:48) discover new surgical techniques. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. 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