The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka (1967)

The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka 1967 The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka is set in feudal Japan Its two central characters are based on the wife and mother of Japanese physician Seishu Hanaoka 1760 1835 Hanaoka developed a herbal general anesthetic, Tsusensan, some forty years before the better known innovations of his American counterparts Long, Wells and Morton