Treatment of Simple Head Injuries, 1954

Warning: contains graphic surgical content.

Loyal Davis, MD, introduces and narrates this color, monaural sound film describing the details of the chronological steps which should be taken in the treatment of a simple head injury. Three cases are briefly presented for observation. The first case is an unconscious man, approximately mid-30’s, who has been in a serious accident and received lacerations on the face and scalp, as well as other injuries. The second case is an unconscious man, approximately late 20’s, who is suffering from paralysis on the right side of his body, indicating injury to the left side of his brain, possibly a brain lesion. The third case shows the application of a bandage to a sutured wound on the side of a man’s face.

The film was passed by the Committee on Medical Motion Pictures, American College of Surgeons.

Film by The Department of Surgery of Northwestern University Medical School. Chairman Loyal Davis, MD. Special thanks is given to Davis and Geck, Inc., for their sutures and surgical specialties. Davis and Geck was a unit of the American Cyanamid Company, located in Danbury, Connecticut.