Intravenous paraldehyde.
- Date:
- [between 1940 and 1949]
- Film
About this work
Description
This is a clinical film demonstrating the action of the anaesthetic agent paraldehyde on two patients; firstly an elderly man and then an adult female. The middle part of the film has a pathological cross section of a human head and upper torso showing how the specimen is intubated
Publication/Creation
[Place of publication not identified], s.n.], [between 1940 and 1949]
Physical description
1 film reel (7 mins): si., b&w.; 16mm.
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
There are no opening or closing credits.
Copyright note
Nuffield
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Where to find it
Location Access Closed stores4179FCan't be requested Note