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- Title
Imagerie et enseignement de la pathologie dans les années 1900: Regard à travers la plaque en verre de la lanterne magique.
- Authors
Baig, Ayesha; Fraser, Richard
- Abstract
Objective: Pathology teaching relies heavily on images of disease. Over the years, the means to show these have included a variety of media and techniques, such as woodcut engravings, lithographs, Kodachrome slides, and digitization. In the first part of the 20th century, lantern slides were also an important medium. To better understand pathology imaging and teaching during this time, we undertook to see how many pathology-related lantern slides remain at McGill University and elsewhere in Canada and to document what they show. Methods: We searched the archives of various McGill-affiliated centres for pathology-related lantern slide collections. We also contacted other Canadian university pathology departments to try to identify additional archival collections. Data and results: 1402 lantern slides were identified in the McGill Maude Abbott Medical Museum (MAMM). Although smaller collections were found in other McGill centres, none had pathology related images. The MAMM slides included gross, microscopic, electron microscopic, and x-ray images as well as a variety of tables, texts, graphs, and hand drawings. Three other Canadian university pathology departments were found to have lantern slide collections. Conclusions: Lantern slides were used to document and teach pathology at McGill and elsewhere in Canada in the early- to mid-1900s. The collection that remains in the MAMM gives a glimpse into the types of diseases encountered and how they were taught at this time. As a means of ordering thoughts and presenting images of disease, the slides foreshadow our current PowerPoint presentations.
- Subjects
CANADA; LANTERN slides; ELECTRON microscopy; WOODCUTTING (Printmaking); PATHOLOGY
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Pathology, 2021, Vol 13, Issue 3, p42
- ISSN
1918-915X
- Publication type
Article