This film depicts a doctor instructing ambulance attendants in emergency medical care. Using layman’s language and graphic handling, the following are covered: blocked airways, bleeding, open wounds, and broken bones. The doctor briefly describes the nature of the respiratory and circulatory systems, the danger of infection from open wounds, and the types of broken bones which attendants might encounter.

Dr. Andrew Morrow, Dr. Nina Braunwald and other physicans and researchers are featured in this film about the history of the prosthetic heart valve, complications encountered by inventors, and key leaps forward in the creation of an artificial valve. Dr. Charles Hufnagel's early invention of a plastic ball valve is described. A Teflon prosthesis developed in the 1950s is shown.The first complete replacement of the mitral valve was performed in 1960 at the National Heart Institute by Morrow and Braunwald, using a device made of polyurethane.

[This film has been edited from its full length of 69 minutes] This film teaches the method of laparotrachelotomy or low cervical cesarean section. At the beginning of the film the instructor lectures and demonstrates the method through the use of diagrams. An actual laparotrachelotomy is performed at the end of the film. Filmed at the Chicago Lying-In Hospital.

The purpose of this presentation is to describe and demonstrate the technique for achieving the maximum roentgenographic detail in mammography. This objective is achieved with the aid of a middle-aged female clinical subject, a female mammography technician, x-rays, photographs and graphs. The program stresses the importance of obtaining radiographic detail in the early detection of breast cancer. In this presentation statistics regarding the incidence of breast cancer in the United States are presented first.

Dr. Alton Ochsner introduces this 1965 Cine Clinic film by speaking about the poor prognosis for lung cancer and the direct relationship to cigarette smoking. The film shows patients' x-rays, surgical removal of cancerous tissue, and the excised specimen. Ochsner is staff at Tulane University, Ochsner Clinic, and Ochsner Foundation Hospital. Shot in New Orleans, Louisiana. Learn more about this film and search its transcript at NLM Digital Collections: http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/8501110A.

The purpose of this presentation is to describe and demonstrate the characteristics of the cultured cells taken originally from a patient with cervical carcinoma. This objective is achieved with the aid of time lapse photography taken at various speeds. In this presentation the harvesting of the cells and the preparation of the culture are first described and demonstrated in a step-by-step fashion. The development of the freshly transferred culture is then demonstrated as itis photographed at one frame per minute.

This film shows, by means of cinefluorography and animation, the location of the esophagus and surrounding organs, various irregularities of the esophageal wall created by carcinomas, and the appearance of the area after radiation treatment. Learn more about this film and search its transcript at NLM Digital Collections: http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/8701004A.

The film begins with a statement that the abandonment of prudery in recent years has made possible the teaching of human reproduction to "the adolescent and mature." The position and function of the uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries is presented. With drawings, legends, and post-mortem specimens, the film traces human reproduction from ovulation through fertilization, segmentation, implantation, growth and maturity of the fetus, and enlargement of the uterus. The function of the umbilical cord is explained.

Artist-animator-medical illustrator Frank Armitage combines footage from his professional medical animations with historical images to provide a lecture about the history of anatomical illustration, as well as the present-day (circa 1970) uses of anatomical animation in medical film. Why the film was made or where it was presented is unknown: no title or credits appear. Armitage had then recently worked on the set-design for the film Fantastic Voyage as well as on animation for surgical instruction films and Walt Disney studios.

In animated cartoons, an analogy is made between a man with a badly functioning car and a man with physical symptoms which could indicate the presence of a neoplasm. The various stages of denial are illustrated. Unprofessional advice is heard, and quick fix remedies are tried. The car owner finally goes to a good garage and pays heavily to have his car repaired, a bill which would have been small if he had taken his car in at the first sign of trouble. The man decides not to make the same mistake with his body that he made with his car.

Presents symbols used in construction of the human pedigree. Illustrates autosomal dominal inheritance using pedigrees of brachydactyly and achondroplastic dwarfism. Pedigrees of albinism, Crigler-Najjar syndrome, and Morquio syndrome illustrate autosomal recessive inheritance. X-linked hemophilia and Vitamin D-resistant rickets pedigrees, along with pedigrees of various kinds of mating, show the consequences of X-linked inheritance to male and female offspring.

This film shows live and animated footage of heart activity and with the help of mechanical analogies, gives a vivid conception of the magnitude of the heart's work. Learn more about this film and search its transcript at NLM Digital Collections: http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/8701025A Learn more about the National Library of Medicine's historical audiovisuals program at: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/collections/films

This film's full title is "Smoking and Lung Cancer, an authentic case filmed at the Royal Edward Chest Hospital, Montreal: the diagnostic tests, assessment, preparation for removal of a lung from a patient with a long history of cigarette smoking." It follows a lung cancer patient, who is also a heavy smoker, through x-ray, diagnosis, bronchoscopy, surgical preparation, surgery, and post-operation. It also gives information on the relationship of smoking to lung cancer.

[This film has been edited from its full length of 64 minutes] In a filmed lecture format, obstetrician Dr. Joseph DeLee demonstrates on anatomical models (in the lecture hall) and with live patients (filmed previously) the use of forceps to deliver an infant, as well as the proper technique for episiotomy. He begins by showing images of scores of different forceps' designs from all over the world, mentioning each inventor by name. He explains why forceps are a necessary instrument for the safe delivery of many babies, and how to assess a patient's need for this intervention.

Louis Pasteur's early days and his contributions to science are dramatically presented. The challenges Pasteur faced from longtime members of the Academy of Medicine in Paris, as he made discoveries they were not progressive and enlightened enough to accept, are tersely enumerated. The case of Joseph Meister, a boy attacked by a rabid dog and treated with a Pasteur vaccine never before tried, is re-enacted.