Intestinal absorption.

Date:
1974
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Description

Professor David Smyth, Professor of Physiology at the University of Sheffield discusses the physiology of the gut and the process of intestinal absorption. He shows, with reference to early experiments, how it was first discovered that the intestine was a living organ which could survive even when extracted from the body. Smyth then explains, using detailed graphs and diagrams, the complex way in which the intestine absorbs substances, such as glucose and amino acids, into the blood stream.

Publication/Creation

London : University of London Audio-Visual Centre, 1974.

Physical description

1 videocassette (Umatic) (40 min.) : sound, black and white.
1 videocassette (digibeta) (40 min.) : sound, black and white, PAL.
1 DVD (40 min.) : sound, black and white, PAL.

Creator/production credits

Presented by Professor David Smyth. Introduced by Dr Ian Gilliland. Produced by Peter Bowen. Directed by David Sharp. Made for British Postgraduate Medical Federation. Made by University of London Audio-Visual Centre, 1974.

Notes

This video is one of around 310 titles, originally broadcast on Channel 7 of the ILEA closed-circuit television network, given to Wellcome Trust from the University of London Audio-Visual Centre shortly after it closed in the late 1980s. Although some of these programmes might now seem rather out-dated, they probably represent the largest and most diversified body of medical video produced in any British university at this time, and give a comprehensive and fascinating view of the state of medical and surgical research and practice in the 1970s and 1980s, thus constituting a contemporary medical-historical archive of great interest. The lectures mostly take place in a small and intimate studio setting and are often face-to-face. The lecturers use a wide variety of resources to illustrate their points, including film clips, slides, graphs, animated diagrams, charts and tables as well as 3-dimensional models and display boards with movable pieces. Some of the lecturers are telegenic while some are clearly less comfortable about being recorded; all are experts in their field and show great enthusiasm to share both the latest research and the historical context of their specialist areas.

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University of London

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