Ergot : the story of a parasitic fungus.
- Date:
- 1958
- Videos
About this work
Description
A comprehensive survey of the natural, medical and social history, commercial production and obstetric use of ergot and its derivative ergometrine. Includes a detailed description of the life-cycle of the fungus, live action footage of the use of ergometrine in the Department of Obstetrics, University College Hospital to expidate delivery in childbirth and Professor Chassar Moir's own account of the discovery of ergometrine in 1935.
Publication/Creation
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1958.
Physical description
1 videocassettes (VHS) (27 min.) : sound, color PAL.
1 videocassette (HDD5) (27 min.) : sound, color PAL.
1 videocassette (DIGIBETA) (27 min.) : sound, color PAL.
1 DVD (27 min.) : sound, color PAL.
1 videocassette (HDD5) (27 min.) : sound, color PAL.
1 videocassette (DIGIBETA) (27 min.) : sound, color PAL.
1 DVD (27 min.) : sound, color PAL.
Copyright note
Wellcome Trust.
Creator/production credits
Wellcome Foundation Film Unit with Prof. W.C. Nixon and Mr W.G. MacGregor (Dept. of Obstetrics, University College Hospital, London), Sir Henry Dale and Prof. J. Chassar Moir (Nuffield Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford)
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