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The Great Moment
UNITED STATES · 1944

The Great Moment

Preston Sturges
medical innovation dental history scientific discovery institutional resistance 19th century America
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Synopsis

The biography of Dr. W.T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and the medical and dental establishment.

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