Morphia as a total anaesthetic.
- Date:
- [between 1950 and 1959]
- Film
About this work
Description
This film starts with a smiling female patient ready for surgery. By the technique of stop frame animation, details of the patient's response to morphine appear on a blackboard. She is briefly roused by having her cheek slapped, her jaw loosened and her eyes opened. She remains unconscious. Intertitle: Induction has taken 2 1/2 hours. An operation on her abdomen is performed. Her respiration is noted. The End.
Publication/Creation
[Place of publication not identified], s.n.], [between 1950 and 1959]
Physical description
1 film reel (07:00 mins): si., b&w.; 16mm.
Notes
Part of the film collection comprising of 55 items donated by Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, Oxford, to the Wellcome Trust in 2008. In 1937, Lord Nuffield established a clinical chair of anaesthesia in Oxford amidst some controversy that anaesthesia was even an academic discipline. The collection is a mixture of clinical and educational films made or held by the department to supplement their teaching dating from the late 1930s onwards.
Creator/production credits
A School Films Production.
Copyright note
Nuffield
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Where to find it
Location Access Closed stores4188FCan't be requested Note