This yankee dodge beats mesmerism hollow.
- Date:
- 1976
- Videos
About this work
Description
The first half of the programme traces the history of anaesthetics from Humphrey Davy's experiments with nitrous oxide through the Victorian adoption of chloroform, the work of Henry Hickman, Horace Wells and others down to the present. The second half portrays an anaesthetist at work during a seven hour double heart valve replacement operation at St Thomas' Hospital.
Publication/Creation
[Place of publication not identified] : BBC TV, 1976.
Physical description
1 videocassette (VHS) (50 min.) : sound, color, PAL.
Series
Copyright note
BBC-TV
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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores544VLocation Status Access Closed stores544bV