{"id":21327,"date":"2021-08-16T01:07:09","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T05:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=21327"},"modified":"2021-08-12T00:18:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T04:18:56","slug":"whats-up-doc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/whats-up-doc\/","title":{"rendered":"what’s up doc?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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c1847 daguerreotype of a famous operation in Boston – first use of anesthetic.<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. .. as that wascally wabbit from Brooklyn said to Elmer Fudd in the movie cartoons of yesteryear. From its very beginning, photography has been a huge asset for medicine and dentistry.<\/p>\n

This Southworth and Hawes plate at left shows a Boston operating room c1847\/8 (Massachusetts General Hospital). It is a period recreation of the first “etherization” of a patient undergoing surgery on his jaw. This image and information is courtesy of the 1976 book, “The Spirit of Fact<\/a>“. I bought my hard cover copy September 2, 1976. Only a few thousand were ever printed as far as I know. A Dover reprint is available but the plates are shown smaller and not as clear and accurate as \u00a0resolution and colour.<\/p>\n

When the minicam craze hit, dentists made use of the 35mm cameras and accessories as shown by this c1935 Leica set up<\/a> by dentist A L \u00a0Dunn of Santa Barbara California and featured in many editions of \u00a0the Leica Manual.<\/p>\n

Over the years, other machines using the basis of photography came into use as diagnostic devices such as the x-ray machine<\/a> to determine organ defects (highlighted by a dye injection). And the massive and noisy MRI machines used to analyze soft tissue issues (some without use of dye injections, some with) shown here are neck blood vessels<\/a>. What’s up indeed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. .. as that wascally wabbit from Brooklyn said to Elmer Fudd in the movie cartoons of yesteryear. From its very beginning, photography has been a huge asset for medicine and dentistry. This Southworth and Hawes plate at left shows … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[582,31,3799,30,63,820,3795,3797,3798,220,3796,2012],"class_list":["post-21327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-boston","tag-daguerreotype","tag-dentistry","tag-images","tag-leitz","tag-minicam","tag-mri","tag-organs","tag-photograohs","tag-photos","tag-vessels","tag-x-ray"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21327"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21334,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21327\/revisions\/21334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}