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IMPORTANT alterations and additions to the Anatomy Department of St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School, London, have just been completed, and an “At Home” was held in the Department on November 14 when it was visited by representatives of the universities and of various London hospitals. Three new research laboratories and a large radiological laboratory, together with a director's room and an office, are housed in the new block. The dissecting-room has been completely renovated, and a new terrazzo floor has been laid. The museum has been equipped with special lighting arrangements for the exhibition of lantern-slides, X-ray negatives, bottled specimens and models. The X-ray equipment is of the latest pattern, and is completely shock-proof, and will serve not only for the instruction of students in all normal radiological appearances but also for research. An optical bench for photomicrography and for the reduction of X-ray negatives has also been accommodated in the radiological laboratory, adjacent to which is a dark-room. The research laboratories are situated in the upper floor of the new block. They are magnificently lighted, and are furnished throughout with the most modern fittings. The visitors were afforded an opportunity of seeing some of the results of experiments which are being carried out in the Department in the use of the cinematograph for the teaching of anatomy. A composite film comprised portions of films showing respectively a dissection of the forearm, some examples of muscle-nerve paralyses, the surface anatomy of normal shoulder movements and a dissection illustrating the mechanism of the knee-joint. This Department is admirably fitted for the teaching of anatomy by modern methods, with emphasis on the study of living anatomy.
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Anatomy Department of St. Thomas's Hospital. Nature 136, 827 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136827a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136827a0