Prefrontal Tuberculoma (1933)

A brief demonstration from Britain of a case of a prefrontal brain tumour. An x-ray of the patient's head is shown. The operation to remove the tumour is shown, and the removed tumour is displayed. The male patient is shown six months after the surgery, healthy and recovered but with slightly impaired movements. Find out more: http://catalogue.wellcome.ac.uk/record=b1672460~S3

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Education

Tags:

• brain surgery
• brain tumour
• brain tumor
• medicine
• surgery
• history of medicine
• archive film
• silent film

[darkholesite]

This is GORE!!!

[badblueman]

Thank god we have people like the surgeons to fix us. I can't really imagine how it would be like for me to perform any operation.

[BadGirlOfAutism]

If I remember rightly the NHS wasn't around when this footage was shot, so I wonder how much would this operation have cost (equivalent in todays money)?

[truvelocity]

@12coudak000 Yes, they were waring gloves. Tight fitting gloves but they had them.

[truvelocity]

He made it after that? Wow.

[FallingStar17]

How medicine has changed! Amazing video,

[duanedragon2]

HOLY $HIT! I kept wondering what they were going to bring out next. Jack-hammer, stick of dynamite, pruning saw? I don't use this degree of barbarism working on CARS.

[saladin972]

look how brutaly damn

[krstnlhjt]

@12coudak000 - The surgeon has gloves on

[krstnlhjt]

This is 'state of the art' surgery in the 1930's.

[rlwieneke]

@TwoGiantLeftFeet "think a hole in one".

[candilion34]

i think he has 6 fingers on his right hand ...