Gut Laser
Series
- Series Name
- Living Tomorrow
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 3
- Summary
- COI synopsis: Mrs Mullen suffers from a stomach disorder. Blood vessels on the wall of her stomach periodically burst, causing massive haemorrhages. Her case was once considered hopeless, but doctors at a London hospital have now given her a future. Using an endoscope - a NoSle of fibre optics, used for visual examination of a patient’s stomach, to which they’ve added a fibre to carry laser light - they reach the very source of the trouble. Blasts of laser light then cauterise the faulty blood vessels.
- Keywords
- Health and medicine; Science and technology; Engineering; Inventions and discoveries
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 55 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/255
- Credits:
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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London W1T 1LN - Notes
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