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Show Brain Surgery Pictures Japan's first medical sound moving mov-ing picture was released recently in Tokyo. The film, which shows a delicate piece of surgery on the brain of an epileptic, is the work of Dr. Makoto Saito of Nagoya medical med-ical university. The picture was planned and directed by Dr. Saito, who has 50 reels of silent medical films to his credit, and the operation opera-tion was performed by him. High spot is the removal of an affected area of the brain about as big as a man's thumb, from the head of a 28-year-old male patient The man recovered rapidly. Music is played on the sound track so that the actual scenes of the operation, which are gruesome, may not have a bad effect ef-fect on the audience. |