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.
Copyright note
Nuffield
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.
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Where to find it
Location Access Closed stores4188FCan't be requested Note