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This is a clinical film showing the induction of anaesthesia on a patient using the open drop ether technique. Respiration in the patient is aided. There are no eye movements and the pupil is dilated proving that complete anaesthesia has been achieved.

1 film reel (05:20 mins): si., b&w.; 16mm.

Signs of anaesthesia including controlled respiration.

Historia de la anestesiologia : con contribuciones originales de procedencia lusohispana y latino-americana / J. Antonio Aldrete.

A compilation of three titles (1. Anaesthesia Jump advert/ Newcastle University, 2. Farnborough SAM baths, 3. Babe treatment); the last one is a 1930s clip of a nursery nurse tube feeding a premature baby by mouth..

1 videocassette (60? min.) (Umatic) : silent, black and white,  PAL.

Compilation. 3.

Annals of medical history.

pages 267-296, 394-424 : illustrations, portrait

Crawford Williamson Long / by Frances Long Taylor.

A short history of anaesthesia : the first 150 years / G.B. Rushman, N.J.H. Davies, R.S. Atkinson.

222 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, xii pages : illustrations ; 18 cm

Anæsthetics antient and modern : an historical sketch of anæsthesia.

130 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 30 cm

Anaesthetic equipment in the history of German anaesthesia : [catalogue of the exhibition held at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg from 23 April to 4 May 1997 on the occasion of the German Congress of Anaesthesiology and the Fourth International Symposium on the History of Anaesthesia] / edited by Jochen Schulte am Esch and Michael Goerig.

volumes : illustrations, portraits ; 28 cm

Milestones in anesthesia.

xv, 160 pages : illustrations, portraits, map, facsimiles ; 23 cm

The first anesthetic : the story of Crawford Long / [Frank Kells Boland].

This is a clinical film showing two patients anaesthetised by Avertin administered rectally and orally. The first patient is a child and the second an average woman. The anaesthetic agent is shown shown being prepared by a nurse

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Historia de la anestesiologia : con contribuciones originales de procedencia lusohispana y latino-americana / J. Antonio Aldrete.

Compilation. 3.

Crawford Williamson Long / by Frances Long Taylor.

A short history of anaesthesia : the first 150 years / G.B. Rushman, N.J.H. Davies, R.S. Atkinson.

Anæsthetics antient and modern : an historical sketch of anæsthesia.

Milestones in anesthesia.

The first anesthetic : the story of Crawford Long / [Frank Kells Boland].

Avertin anaesthesia.

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Historia de la anestesiologia : con contribuciones originales de procedencia lusohispana y latino-americana / J. Antonio Aldrete.

Compilation. 3.

Crawford Williamson Long / by Frances Long Taylor.

A short history of anaesthesia : the first 150 years / G.B. Rushman, N.J.H. Davies, R.S. Atkinson.

Anæsthetics antient and modern : an historical sketch of anæsthesia.

Milestones in anesthesia.

The first anesthetic : the story of Crawford Long / [Frank Kells Boland].

Avertin anaesthesia.

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