the heart is placed.  It is thus easy to put a manometer tube in the femoral artery of an animal, bend it up alongside of the exposed heart, and simultaneously photograph the cardiac contraction and the degree of rise of the fluid in the manometer(!).  The tube is arranged like the draw tube of a microscope.  It is made long, so as to admit of taking small hearts at life-size.  The stand carries a support for the frog or other animal to be experimented upon, and a bottle of physiological salt solution kept warm by a spirit lamp beneath.

[Illustration:  FIG. 2.—­INTERIOR OF THE CAMERA.]

The whole apparatus is readily packed in a small space.  I have already taken a number of photographs of various hearts and intestines with it, and the contraction of the heart of the frog produced by Strophanthus hispidus, the new cardiac stimulant, is seen in Fig. 3, taken by this new instrument.  The apparatus has the great advantage that six photographs of a single cardiac pulsation, or of any muscular contraction, may be easily taken in less than one second, or, by simply turning the crank slower, they may be taken at any desired rate to keep pace with the rhythm of the heart.  The second hand of a watch may be placed in the field of view and simultaneously photographed with the heart, so that there can be no question about the series of photographs all belonging to one pulsation.

[Illustration:  FIG. 3.—­PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE HEART IN MOTION.

1, Normal diastole; 2, auricular systole; 3, ventricular systole. 1, 2, 3 were taken in a half second; 4, 5, 6, same as 1, 2, 3, after injection of toxic dose of Strophanthus hispidus. 4, 5, 6 were taken in a half second.  The pulse rate was 74.]

I have already called attention[13] to the ease with which these photographs are enlarged for lecture room demonstration, either on paper or in a stereopticon, and the ease with which they may be reproduced in print to illustrate the action of drugs.

[Footnote 13:  Medical Record, loc. cit.; Recent Advances in Methods of Studying the Heart, Medical Press, Buffalo, March 1, 1886, p. 234; Instantaneous Photographs of the Heart, Johns Hopkins University Circulars, March, 1886, p. 60.]

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