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STUDYING DISEASE WITH
MOVING PICTURES

MOVING pictures of the insane,

epileptics, and other persons who are suffering from nervous diseases are being used by doctors to study the development of the cases, and as a permanent record of the symptoms peculiar to each disease. The gait, the facial contortions, and the gestures are depicted and the impression created is even greater than if the patients themselves were before the observer.

The idea was introduced by Theodore H. Weisenburg of Philadelphia, Professor of Clinical Neurology at the MedicoChirurgical College and Neurologist at the Philadelphia General Hospital, who has had ten thousand feet of films made during the past five years for use in the class room. Every nervous ailment known to the medical world is shown in these pictures and they are an invaluable aid to the students, as the patients themselves are not usually available for purposes of instruction. While the pictures are being run off on the machine, Dr. Weisenburg gives an explanatory talk on the disease illustrated, and the lesson is indelibly printed on the minds of the students.

"Few of the numerous kinds of nervous disorders ever come under the notice of the majority of the students," said Dr. Weisenburg, "but with the symptoms of each case on record in a film, by putting it into a projecting machine the student finds himself face to face with patients suffering from every known nervous disease."

The symptoms and peculiarities of nervous diseases are usually of such short duration that there is little opportunity to make extended observations, but the picture once caught, the film can be repeated until the student becomes familiar with the symptoms, and he will recognize its counterpart instantly when he meets such a case in his afterwork.

There is sometimes a great deal of trouble connected with taking the pictures, and Dr. Weisenburg has met with a number of curious and amusing experiences. On one occasion an attempt was made to take motion pictures of a group

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The PURE FOOD LAW

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By Charles

work to secure "wholesome food for the people at large"?

Many other questions might be asked but suppose we settle for a moment on this: "Flavored garbage," you knowhave we abolished it? That's the point now. As a matter of fact, is there substantially less of it than before we turned upon it the big statutory guns?

Take a look at the records and see.

This Food and Drugs Act, commonly called the Pure Food Law, was approved June 3, 1906, and

went into effect January 1, 1907. The Government's official year runs from June 30 to June 30. In the last six months of the governmental year ending June 30, 1907, there were no prosecutions under this Act. The succeeding years show the astonishing totals found in Table I.

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TABLE I

TOTAL CASES REPORTED

135

521

1016

1180

1504

Five years after the Law became effective we have more than ten times as many cases. Let us allow all we can for the increased energy, efficiency, and experience of the Department's officers. Still the fact remains self-evident that the Law has not abolished the

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TABLE II

CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS

For Shipments of Adulterated Butter

For Shipments of Adulterated Candy and Confectionery.
For Shipments of Adulterated Canned Tomatoes

For Shipments of Adulterated Catsup

For Shipments of Adulterated Cheese

For Shipments of Adulterated Dried Apples

For Shipments of Adulterated Drug Products

For Shipments of Adulterated Evaporated Milk

For Shipments of Adulterated Fish and Oysters.

For Shipments of Adulterated Flavoring Extracts and Essences.

For Shipments of Adulterated Fruit Juices, Syrups, and Cordials.
For Shipments of Adulterated Jelly and Gelatine.

For Shipments of Adulterated Milk

For Shipments of Adulterated Olives
For Shipments of Adulterated Spices

For Shipments of Adulterated Tomato Sauce Pulp and Paste..

CONDEMNATION PROCEEDINGS UNDER SECTION 10

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