Anesthesia History Files

"I also attended on two occasions the operating theatre in the hospital at Edinburgh, and saw two very bad operations, one on a child, but I rushed away before they were completed. Nor did I ever attend again, for hardly any inducement would have been strong enough to make me do so; this being long before the blessed days of chloroform. The two cases fairly haunted me for many a long year."
-Charles Darwin, Autobiography

This listing is under construction! See also the Anesthesia History Association, Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology sites or Anesthesia and Pain History on the Internet.

THIS MONTH IN ANESTHESIA HISTORY
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*Anesthesia and Pain History on the Internet

A selected "Anesthesia and Pain in the News" page is available.

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James Young Simpson and associates testing chloroform
[Source: Robert H. Curtis, Triumph Over Pain: Story of Anesthesia. New York: David McKay, 1972; courtesy of the Wellcome Trustees]

TABLE OF CONTENTS

*Anesthesia and Popular Culture
*Beginner's Guide to Anesthesia History
*News and Notices
*Alabama Anesthesia History
*Anesthesia History Association materials
*Anesthesia History at the ASA Annual Meetings
*Anesthesia History Calendar
*Anesthesia and Pain History on the Internet
*Bibliographies
*Book Tables of Contents
*ESIA History Columns
*Full Text Materials
*UAB Department of Anesthesiology History Files

Anesthesia and Popular Culture

Beginner's Guide to Anesthesia History

News and Notices:

Anesthesia History Association 2005 Spring Meeting Call for Abstracts
Anesthesia History Association Resident Essay Contest 2005
UAB Anesthesia Creates History of Anesthesia Section
Dr. Barbara Duncum [1910-2001] Obituary by David Zuck, M.D.
Betty J. Bamforth, M.D., Obituary
NIH Pain Exhibit on the WWW
B. Raymond Fink, M.D., Obituary
--A listing of Dr. Fink's articles 1966-1997 from MEDLINE is here.
David M. Little Prize for Best History Publications
BMA Prize for Donald Caton's What a Blessing She Had Chloroform*
New Pain History Book: November 2000
AHA/HAS Joint Meeting Report
Centenary Exhibition of Spinal and Extradural Anesthesia
Online Pain Exhibit [UCLA]
AANA Archives Anesthesia Apparatus Exhibit
AANA Guide to the Archives 2nd ed
AANA Library and Archives Reorganization
History of Anaesthesia Society Proceedings Available
International Symposium on the History of Anesthesia 1982 Reprint
Max Sadove, M.D., Memorial Service
NIH Historical Office Pain Grant
South African Society of Anaesthetists History Available
*Waller Exhibition

Alabama Anesthesia History:
[see also Alabama Medical History]

*Alabama Association of Nurse Anesthetists. History.

*Alice McNeal, M.D.

*Anesthesia History in Alabama: A Brief Literature Review

*Gardner Quincy Colton's 1848 Visit to Mobile, Alabama [[abstact]

*Gardner Quincy Colton's 1848 Visit to Mobile, Alabama [slide presentation]

*University of Alabama at Birmingham. Department of Anesthesiology Timeline

Anesthesia History Association materials:

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*Anesthesia History Association 2005 Spring Meeting

*AHA Membership Form

*David M. Little Prize for Best History Publications

Anesthesia History Association Resident Essay Contest 2005
[Deadline is August 23, 2005]

AHA Resident Essay Contest: Past Winners and Published Essays

Anesthesia History at the ASA Annual Meeting

*Anesthesia History at ASA04

*Anesthesia History at ASA03

*Anesthesia History at ASA02

*Anesthesia History at ASA01

*Anesthesia History at ASA00

*Anesthesia History at ASA99

*Anesthesia History at ASA98

*Anesthesia History at ASA97

Anesthesia History Calendar

*Anesthesia and Pain History on the Internet

Bibliographies:

*Recent Articles on Anesthesia History [10/04]
*Recent Articles on Anesthesia History [7/04]
*Recent Articles on Anesthesia History [1/04]

*Airway/Intubation[HISTLINE 3/98]

*Anesthesia History Articles, 1995-1998[MEDLINE 6/98]
*Anesthesia History Articles, 1993-1994[MEDLINE]
*Anesthesia History Articles, 1990-1992[MEDLINE]
*Anesthesia History Articles, 1985-1989[MEDLINE]
*Anesthesia History Articles, 1980-1984[MEDLINE]
*Anesthesia History Articles, 1975-1979[MEDLINE]
*Anesthesia History Articles, 1966-1974[MEDLINE]
*Anesthesia History Articles, 1964-1965[MEDLINE]

*Anesthesia Journals [SERLINE 6/98]

*Anesthesia Monographs, 19th Century[Library of Congress]

*Blood Transfusion[HISTLINE 7/98]

*Chloroform[HISTLINE 9/97]

*Ether [CATLINE]
*Ether [HISTLINE 11/97]

*Macintosh, Sir Robert [7/02]
*Mesmerism[HISTLINE 11/97]
*Mesmerism[CATLINE]

*Narcotics[CATLINE]
*Narcotics[HISTLINE]

*Nitrous Oxide[CATLINE]

*Obstetric Anesthesia [PubMed 4/03]

*Pain[HISTLINE 1/98]

*Waters, Ralph M.[8/02]
*Wells, Horace [HISTLINE 1/98]

Book Tables of Contents:

*Essays on the History of Anaesthesia, edited by AM Barr, et al
[Royal Society of Medicine Press, 1996]

ESIA History Columns:

These items have appeared in the "History of Anesthesia" column of
the monthly electronic journal, Educational Synopses
of Anesthesiology and Critical Care

*First Successful Uses of Amylene in the United States

*J.F. Flagg's Opposition to the Ether Patent[December 1997]
*Three Early Chloroform Articles[January 1997]
*Luther's Early Inhaler[December 1996]
*Bigelow's Account of Morton's Anesthesias[October 1996]
*Non-Anesthetic Use of Nitrous Oxide[September 1996]
*An Early Patient Account[August 1996]
*Early Use of Nitrous Oxide[June 1996]
*Early Obstetric Anesthesia[May 1996]
*Mesmerism is Dead! Long Live Ether![March 1996]
*Early Electroanalgesia[February 1996]

Full Text:

1846

*Bigelow HJ. Insensibility during surgical operations produced by inhalation.*Bigelow HJ. Insensibility during surgical operations produced by inhalation.Boston Med Surg J 35:309-317, 1846
*Flagg JF. The inhalation of an ethereal vapor to prevent sensibility to pain during surgical operations.Boston Med Surg J 35:356-359, 1846

1847

*Clark J. Inhalation of ether in labor.*Clark J. Inhalation of ether in labor.Boston Med Surg J 37:214-216, 1847
*M. Etherization in dentistry.Boston Med Surg J 37:302-303, 1847
*Marcy EE. Removal of a large scirrhous testicle from a man while under the influence of nitrous oxide gas.
Boston Med Surg J 37:97-99, 1847
*Simpson JY. Account of a new anesthetic agent, substitute for sulphuric ether in surgery and midwifery. 1847
*Smith JVC. Mesmeric examinations.Boston Med Surg J 37:85, 1847

1848

*Channing W. A Treatise on Etherization in Childbirth. 1848

*Peck G.W. In the Use of Chloroform in Hanging. American Whig Review 8(3):283-297, September 1848

1849

*Anaesthesia from the local application of chloroform. Am J Med Sci 34:528, 1849

*Chloride of olefiant gas as an anesthetic. Am J Med Sci 34:527-528, 1849

*Eve PF. Deaths from the inhalation of sulphuric ether. Am J Med Sci 35:293, 1849

1850

*Atlee WL. On anaesthetic agents. Trans Am Med Assoc 3:389-390, 1850

1857

*Crockett R. Death following the inhalation of a mixture of ether and chloroform. Am J Med Sci 1857 July pp 284-285

*Orton JG. Amylene. .Boston Med Surg J 56:457, 1857
*Orton JG. Amylene in midwifery. Boston Med Surg J 57:77, 1857

1865

*Baker, Sarah W. Anaesthesia. Harper's New Monthly Magazine 31(184):453-460, September 1865

1867

*Nunneley T. On the tetrachloride of carbon as an anaesthetic. British Medical Journal 1:685-687, 1867

1894

*Snell, E.L. Dr. Morton's Discovery of Anesthesia. The Century: A Popular Quarterly. 48(4):584-592, August 1894

*Simpson, Eve Blantyre. Sir James Simpson's Introduction of Chloroform. The Century: A Popular Quarterly.
47(3): 412-421, January 1894

1908

*Abbe T. Chloroform versus ether at Columbia Hospital for Women. American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children 57: 547-552, 1908

University of Alabama at Birmingham. Department of Anesthesiology Library.
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