A Note on a Cheap Substitute for a Shadowless Lamp for Operation Theatres

powerful lamp. The discomforts arising i , neck for electric light close to the back of , an a period of half an hour or longei, e ^ be emergency operation, have to e realizedTTnsoital at When I visited Dr. Seagrave erested in Namkham in March 1935 I be?fyfLarabolic lamp an overhead cluster of lamps with P jn the shades which he had fitted foi 1 some operation theatre. Dr. Seagrave g< gbamo details of the device. On my re u I tried to get a similar model madejmt^ unsuccessful as the firm which sold the shades had stopped selling them. After my transfer to Toungoo I took the opportunity of communicating my ideas to the representative of Messrs. Stewart Raeburn and Company, Limited' Rangoon, who had come to supervise the renewal of the whole electric installation of Toungoo Civil Hospital. After some experiments with reference to the number of lamps, candle-power of each, and the distance of the lamps from each other and the operation table, the model, as shown in the photograph, was accepted as being very satisfactory from the standpoint of being practically shadowless and brilliant.