Dated - October 16, 2014
RCSI and …THE KNICK, Dr Stanley Burns, & The Burns Medical Photographic Archive
THE KNICK begins on Sky Atlantic tonight. It’s a 10-episode TV series set at the fictional Knickerbocker Hospital in New York City in 1900. The hospital is at the forefront of groundbreaking surgery, with staff pushing the boundaries of medicine at a time before the advent of antibiotics.
Dr Stanley Burns, a New York City ophthalmologist is the on-set Medical, Historical and Technical Consultant for the series. Dr. Burns began collecting photographs in 1975 and founded The Burns Archive in 1977 with over one million historic photographs.
Over the past forty years, thousands of publishers, exhibitors, authors, researchers, artists and filmmakers have utilized The Burns Archive. It is an unparalleled collection of early medical photography renowned for its images depicting surgery, medicine, disease and death. Every piece of surgical equipment in THE KNICK is also from the period, much of it provided by Dr Burns
Dr Stanley Burns visited RCSI Library last July. He was impressed by the album of Surgeon Maurice Collis, President RCSI 1839, with its photographic record of operations for cleft-palate performed by Collis. There was much to interest Dr Burns in the RCSI Heritage Collections, such that he found it necessary to revise some dates for “firsts” in light of the evidence here.
http://www.burnsarchive.com/THEKNICK/TheKnick.html
http://www.cinemax.com/the-knick/
