The treatment of myasthenia gravis.

Date:
1934
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Description

A very intriguing short black and white, silent film, featuring images of a middle aged woman presumably suffering from myasthenia gravis. First we see her moving her eyes up and down, then we focus on her mouth and jaw as she speaks.

Publication/Creation

London, 1934.

Physical description

1 videocassette (4.02 min.) (VHS) : silent, black and white, PAL
1 videocassette (4.02 min.) (DIGIBETA) : silent, black and white
1 DVD (4.02 min.) : silent, black and white

Notes

This film (in the form of two 16mm. reels) was given by Professor J.P. Payne to Dr. Christopher Lawrence, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, in 1992.
Supporting paperwork available in the department.
See also the following articles: M. B. Walker 'Treatment of Myasthenia Gravis with Physostigmine,' The Lancet, 223: 5779, 2 June 1934, pp. 1200-1201 / M. B. Walker 'Potassium Chloride in Myasthenia Gravis,' The Lancet 226: 5836, 6 July 1935, p. 47 / L.P. E. Laurent & Mary B. Walker 'Oral and Parenteral Administration of Prostigmin and its Analogues in Myasthenia Gravis,' The Lancet 227: 5887, 27 June 1936, pp. 1457-1459 / L.P.E. Laurent & Mary Walker 'Treatment of Myasthenia Gravis', The Lancet 242: 6264, 18 September 1943, p. 367.

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