COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHY

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 162, 5 April 1938, Page 13

COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHY

Growing Importance In

Medical Study

EMPHASIS BY AMERICAN

SURGEONS

Dominion Special Service. f Auckland, April 4. The growing importance of colour photography in medical study was emphasised by two Ameijcan surgeons, Dr. H. L. Updegraff, Hollywood, California, and Dr. George W. Swift, of Seattle, Washington, who were through passengers by the Monterey after attending the recent conference of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in Sydney. A number of films dealing with various aspects of surgery were exhibited at the conference, including one on reparative surgery and the technique of reconstructing crippled faces, as presented by Dr. Updegraff, who screened the film for the benefit of Auckland surgeons in Auckland to-day. Dr. Updegraff said he was impressed with the advances made in plastic surgery in New Zealand and Australia, and classed the quality of the work as equal to that being accomplished in America. He said colour photography was of great assistance to medical students, and he urged the development of a greater variety of surgical films. . Dr; Swift said moving pictures of surgical work were introduced at the Pan-American Medical Conference of 1926. The films exhibited at the Sydney conference demonstrated the value of such an adjunct in medical education, and he thought that in all future conferences they would become an increasingly important feature. • Both doctors referred to the arrangements being made for the next PanAmerican Medical Conference at Honolulu in September, 1939, when it was expected there would be a large representative attendance of surgeons.