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LaRue, Mervin W., 1892-1973

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1892 - 1973

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

Asphyxia Neonatorum; Experimental Study in the Guinea Pig, 1943

 Item — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents Warning: this film includes footage of research animals; graphic content of surgical operations on live guinea pigs.A silent, color film detailing experiments on guinea pig fetuses in which they are deprived of oxygen, birthed, and resuscitated. Effects on the nervous system and learning ability are noted. Effects include: hemorrhage in thalamus, hemorrhage in fourth ventricle, hemorrhage in hippocampus, atrophy of cortex, and others.W.F. Windle and R.F. Becker,...
Dates: 1943

Cardiotomy for Removal of Bullet Embedded in Right Ventricle, 1949

 Item — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents Warning: contains graphic footage of heart surgery.A cardiotomy is performed to remove a bullet in a patient’s right ventricle in this silent, color film. Description of the procedure is given through intertitles. A surgeon makes an incision into the patient’s chest. Once the heart is exposed, it is palpated and explored to locate the bullet. Another incision through the ventricle wall exposes the bullet, and it is extracted with forceps. Finally, the patient is sutured. ...
Dates: 1949

Congenital Anomalies of the Ear; Genesis and Correction, 1953

 Item — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents Warning: contains graphic images of surgery.This silent, color film shows the embryology of the human ear using a combination of illustrations, animation, intertitles, and real patients. Various types of congenital anomalies that can occur during fetal development are described along with six patient case studies presented with their pre- and post-operative results. Diagnoses discussed include congenital anomaly of incus and stapes, bilateral congenital stapes fixation, Treacher...
Dates: 1953

Dissection of Parotid Tumors, 1951

 Item — Box 9, Case: 2018.18.002_canister
Scope and Contents Warning: graphic surgical content, including head and neck surgery. A silent, color film in which a female and a male patient undergo surgery to remove a tumor of the parotid gland. Color illustrations and intertitle cards indicate incision location and the facial anatomy involved. The film ends with both patients showing their healed incisions. An adolescent male is shown as a third example of a post-surgical scar.Passed by the Committee on Medical Motion Pictures of...
Dates: 1951

Errors of Refraction, 1944

 Item — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

A silent, color film that details basic principles and properties of optical lenses and refractive errors through illustrations and animation. Review in the Journal of the American Medical Association, 1947, 134(13):1121.


By William Alfred Mann, MS, MD, and Emile George Nadeau, BS, MD. Produced by Mervin LaRue, Inc.

Dates: 1944

Femoral Hernia in the Female, 1949

 Item — Box 7
Scope and Contents Warning: graphic surgical content of human torso. A silent color film in which Raymond McNealy, MD and unnamed assistants demonstrate surgery of a femoral hernia, first on a female patient with intertitle cards describing each step, then repeated on a male patient without intertitle cards. Incision technique, locating and dissection of the hernia sac, and suture of incision are demonstrated.Passed by the Committee on Medical Motion Pictures of the American College of...
Dates: 1949

Fenestration Operation for Otosclerosis, 1947

 Item — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents Warning: contains graphic surgical content.This color, silent film uses a combination of illustrations, animation, live action, and descriptive intertitle cards to document a case of fenestration surgery on a twenty-six year old woman suffering from otosclerosis, a condition that causes abnormal bone growth in the ear. Otosclerosis is described as being the most important cause of progressive conduction deafness in early and middle adult life. The patient is presented as having...
Dates: 1947

Injuries of the Peripheral Nerves, 1948

 Item — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents This color film with sound uses color illustrations, animation, diagrams, and footage of patients to detail the structure of several different nerves and explain the process of impulses in the brain and nerve and muscle movement. The effects of injuries to nerves are detailed and exhibited by the patients, including effect on muscle movement, muscle atrophy, sensation loss, and effects to the skin. Nerves detailed are: ulnar, median, radial, brachial-plexus nerve network, sciatic, peroneal,...
Dates: 1948

Manual Rotation in the Management of Occiput Posterior and Transverse Positions, 1943

 Item — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents Warning: graphic childbirth content, including images of two possibly deceased infants.Color, silent film details five different instances of childbirth in which obstetric intervention is required due to abnormal positioning of the baby in the birth canal. Occiput (back of head or skull) Right Posterior is the first segment, in which the baby is facing forward and to the right. In Occiput Left Posterior, the baby is facing forward and to the left. Next is an example of Occiput in...
Dates: 1943

Manual Rotation in the Management of Occiput Posterior and Transverse Positions, outtakes, 1943

 Item — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents Warning: contains graphic images of childbirth.Cut footage, outtakes, and retakes from Manual Rotation in the Management of Occiput Posterior and Transverse Positions. Spread across four reels of color, silent film. Reel one contains episiotomy and other birthing footage, as well as retakes of a doctor handling a pelvic model. Reel two shows different takes of forceps pulling on baby, a shot of an episiotomy wound sewn up, and a baby pulled from...
Dates: 1943

Medical Motion Pictures

 Collection
Identifier: ghsl-15
Abstract

This collection consists of 44 medical motion pictures made between 1928 and 1963, most of which were created by Northwestern University Medical School faculty members. The films depict medical procedures, conditions, processes, and research across 10 health science fields.

Dates: 1928-1963

Splenectomy for Splenomegaly, 1949

 Item — Box 7
Scope and Contents Warning: graphic surgical content of adult male torso.In this silent, color film, the process for removing an enlarged spleen is demonstrated, intertitle cards detail each step of procedure. Proper suture technique also demonstrated.Passed by the Committee on Medical Motion Pictures, American College of Surgeons, 1949.Film by Raymond W. McNealy, MD, FACS, FICS, Chief Surgeon, Wesley Memorial Hospital, President of Staff, Cook County Hospital, Professor of...
Dates: 1949

Stapes Mobilization; Foot Plate Visualization Method (Revised), 1956

 Item — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents Warning: contains graphic surgical footage. An endoscopic motion picture camera provides an up close view of a stapes mobilization surgery in this silent, color film. Intertitles are used to describe the procedure. The stapes, or stirrup bone, is not only the smallest bone in the human ear, but the smallest bone in the human body. The surgery is recommended as a preliminary to fenestration.By George E. Shambaugh, Jr., MD, Eugene L. Derlacki, MD, and Wiley H. Harrison,...
Dates: 1956

The Control of Voluntary Muscles (Some Principles of Kinesiology), 1943

 Item — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents This silent, color film features a nude male model demonstrating a variety of muscle movements commonly used by aquatic divers. Illustrations and animations identify muscle positions and movements, intertitle cards provide further detail. Reviewed in the Journal of the American Medical Association 1947;134(14):1199. doi:10.1001/jama.1947.02880310057026By Frederic T. Jung, PhD, MD, Department of Physiology, and William H. Lazear, DDS. Produced by...
Dates: 1943