Conquest of Pain

Duration: 22

Genre: Biographical | Drama | Educational | Historical | Medical

Year Published: 1944

Creator: Teaching Film Custodians

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Shows how W. T. G. Morton discovered and demonstrated that ether could be used safely as an anaesthetic. After reading of the lethargic condition produced by inhalation of ether, he successfully uses it on a dental patient. It is also successfully used by a physician as W. T. G. Morton divulges the ingredients of his discovery for the good of humanity., Teaching Film Custodians classroom film of excerpts from the 1944 Paramount Pictures feature film, “The Great Moment”. A dramatization of the discovery of ether as a safe anesthetic by Boston dentist W.T.G. Morton in 1846 and the ethical problem he faced when he attempted to market his discovery.

Complete Record: Shows how W. T. G. Morton discovered and demonstrated that ether could be used safely as an anaesthetic. After reading of the lethargic condition produced by inhalation of ether, he successfully uses it on a dental patient. It is also successfully used by a physician as W. T. G. Morton divulges the ingredients of his discovery for the good of humanity., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.