Meridian Education - The End of Pain: Anesthesia

The End of Pain: Anesthesia

Before anesthetics, surgeons relied on speed, brandy, and brutality. This program reveals how a fairground dentist named Horace Wells made an essential breakthrough in pain mitigation by ingesting nitrous oxide and pulling out one of his own teeth. Recounting Wells’ foray into other surgical procedures with the help of a colleague, William Morton, the program explores the subsequent split between the two researchers, with Morton favoring ether while Wells gravitated toward chloroform. The program offers a concise history of anesthetics by featuring other self-experimenters like Humphry Davy and Sigmund Freud, as well as a present-day version of Dr. Fred Prescott’s curare self-test. A BBCW Production. (51 minutes)

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Item#: BVL38693
Copyright date: ©2007
VHS ISBN 978-1-4213-8618-8
DVD (Chaptered) ISBN 978-1-4213-8619-5

Part of the Series : Medical Mavericks: The History of Self-Experimentation


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