Aubert Geneviève
Department of Neurology, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.
Neurology. 2002 Nov 26;59(10):1612-8. doi: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000036274.36543.c5.
To present the cinematographic production of Arthur Van Gehuchten (1861-1914) and to put this collection into its medical and sociocultural context.
The arrival of Edison's Kinetoscope (1891) and Lumière's Cinématographe (1895) provoked the immediate interest of neurologists who foresaw the potential of motion pictures for illustration, research, and teaching.
Arthur Van Gehuchten, professor of anatomy and neurology at the Catholic University of Louvain, was trained as a microscopist and a cytologist. From neuroanatomy, he progressively broadened his interest to neurology. Van Gehuchten was an avant-garde teacher, eager to adopt new visual aids. In 1895, he attended the first cinematographic screenings. Medical cinematography was soon brought into disrepute in European academic circles, when films made by the French surgeon Doyen were copied and shown on fairgrounds. Nevertheless, in 1905, Van Gehuchten began to film neurologic patients. He used this technique extensively to demonstrate clinical signs, to illustrate neurologic diseases, and to document functional evolution following surgery. For decades, these films were screened for medical students by Van Gehuchten's successors to the chair of neurology. The original nitrate films (more than 2 hours) have been recently rediscovered. They have been restored by the Royal Belgian Film Archive, where they are the oldest Belgian films.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Van Gehuchten built up a collection of moving pictures for teaching purposes. This was one of the first such undertakings. This unique set of films has miraculously survived, and serves as an important archive of nervous diseases and their manifestations prior to the advent of modern therapies.
介绍亚瑟·范·赫希滕（1861 - 1914）的电影作品，并将该系列作品置于其医学及社会文化背景之中。
爱迪生的活动电影视镜（1891年）和卢米埃尔的电影放映机（1895年）问世后，立即引起了神经学家的兴趣，他们预见了电影在插图、研究和教学方面的潜力。
鲁汶天主教大学解剖学和神经学教授亚瑟·范·赫希滕曾接受显微镜学家和细胞学家的培训。从神经解剖学开始，他逐渐将兴趣扩展到神经学。范·赫希滕是一位前卫的教师，渴望采用新的视觉辅助工具。1895年，他参加了首次电影放映。当法国外科医生杜瓦制作的影片被复制并在游乐场放映时，医学电影很快在欧洲学术界声名狼藉。然而，1905年，范·赫希滕开始拍摄神经科患者。他广泛使用这项技术来展示临床体征、说明神经疾病，并记录手术后的功能演变。几十年来，范·赫希滕神经学教授职位的继任者们一直为医学生放映这些影片。最初的硝酸盐影片（超过两小时）最近被重新发现。它们已由比利时皇家电影档案馆修复，这些影片是该馆最古老的比利时影片。
在20世纪初，范·赫希滕为教学目的制作了一系列电影。这是最早的此类项目之一。这套独特的影片奇迹般地保存了下来，是现代疗法出现之前神经疾病及其表现的重要档案。
