Scientific Program

ANESTHESIA HISTORY ASSOCIATION PROGRAM

May 13, 1993

8:30 – 10:00 Two Concurrent Sessions

One Great Anesthesia Soceity

The Merger of the IARS & ASA

The Anesthesia Surey: A

Turning Point for the Specialty

A History of the ASA Antitrust

Suit and Its Significance

William Lorenzo Moss, M.D.

Another Georgia Pioneer

The Discovery of Anesthesia

Illuminated by a Personal

Library of Horace Wells

Noel Alexander Gillespie

An Englishman’s Contribution

To American Anesthesiology

10:00 – 10:30 Break

10:30 – Noon TWO CONCURRENT SESSIONS

A History of Malignant

Hyperthermia

Chronic Pain Management in

the 1920s and 30s

Causalgia: An Unknown

Contribution

The Evolution of Anesthesia Techniques

for Coronary Artery Surgery

Training American to Fight

Heart Attacks

Self Experimentation in Anesthesiology:

Scott M. Smith, M.D.

NOON – 1:30 LUNCH

1:30 – 3:00 PM TWO CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Anesthesia and the Popular

Imagination: A Preliminary Inquiry

Emery Rovenstine at Bellevue

The History of Anesthesia at the

New York Hospital-Cornell Medical

Center

Twilight Sleep

Four Episodes in Obstetrical

Anesthesia History

Ancient Philatelic Medicine

3:00 – 3:30 PM BREAK

3:30 – 5:00 PM ONE CONCURRENT SESSIONS

The Anesthesia Machine Through History

Anesthesiology in the USSR: Victim of Totalitarianism

Development of Tracheal Tubes in Anesthesiology