PUT GERMS ON FILMS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18961, 11 March 1936, Page 12

PUT GERMS ON FILMS

GERMS KILLED HIM RAFFLING DISEASES STUDIED LONDON, .lan. 13. For 20 years Dr. Ronald George Gant), of Harley Street and The Gables, \\ edderburn "road. Hampstead, devoted Jus life to the study of the world s most baffling diseases. Yesterday came news that he had died, aged 52, a victim ol iiis own researches. The “Canti method” of cinema-micro-photography. born of a home-made apparatus in tins basement of bis I Lampstead home, is now standardised and practised in every country in l-be world. In the laboratory which Dr. Canti built himself at- Hampstead he designed a, cinema, cjuncuii which would laiUc microscopic pictures ol the giowth oj living tissue at intervals of, sav, 61) seconds and automatically wind on tin film for the next exposure . "ANSWERING THE BELL ’ For six. years he worked oil a (ibn il lhe growth of cancer cells. His homemade apparatus was not always reliable, .il In- 'titled an alarm licit which rang whenever it failed to act,. For years he and Mrs. Canti, lus voimg fair-haired wile, took it in tunis day and uighL to “answer the hell by adjusting Die camera. Dr. Canti refused to make a penny from his inventions. He was appointed a lecturer in eliinal pathology at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital ami honorary seientilie seen*.I ary of the British Empire Cancer Research Campaign. In 1931 lie. contracted Malta lever while experimenting with cases of that, disease, lie was seriously ill for six months. “NO THOUGHT OF SELF”

Last duly, when Dr. Canti was engaged on films of the psittacosis geim • parrots’ disease!’ —lie fell ill again, and another germ attacking his already weakened system caused his death. “There is no doubt that Dr. Canti Ini d been overworking a great deal before his illness,” said Dr. Malcolm Donaldson, a Harley Street friend and associate, to a Daily Express represen tative last night. “He was a scientific genius, without a thought ol self. Dr. Canti leaves a widow and four children.