Alcohol as a total anaesthetic.

Date:
[between 1940 and 1949]
  • Film

About this work

Description

This film demonstrates the method of maintaining anaesthesia using alcohol as the agent on a male patient undergoing a hernia operation. Induction, maintenance and resuscitation of the patient are shown.

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified], s.n.], [between 1940 and 1949]

Physical description

1 film reel (05:29 mins) : silent, black and white; 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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