FROM THE LITERATURE

A.J. Wright, M.L.S.
Department of Anesthesiology Library
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Note: In general, I have not examined articles that do not include a notation for the number of references, illustrations, etc. I do examine most books and book chapters. Books can be listed in this column more than once as new reviews appear. Older articles are included as I work through a large backlog of materials. Some listings are not directly related to anesthesia, pain or critical care but concern individuals important in the history of the specialty [i.e., Harvey Cushing]. Non-English articles are so indicated. Columns for the past several years are available in the "Anesthesia History Files" at http://www.anes.uab.edu/aneshist/aneshist.htm as "Recent Articles on Anesthesia History."

*Fink BR, McGoldrick KE, eds. Careers in Anesthesiology: Autobiographical Memoirs. Volume 3. Park Ridge, Illinois: Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology, 1999. 214pp. US$35.00 [Rev. Ellison N. Anesth Analg 90:1009, 2000

*Karch SB. A Brief History of Cocaine. Boca Raton and Boston: CRC Press, 1998. 202pp. US$22.00 [Rev. Berridge V. Med Hist 43(3):404-405, 1999]

*Livingston WK. Pain and Suffering. Seattle: International Association for the Study of Pain, 1998. 250pp. US$31.20 [IASP members], US$48.00 [non-members] [rev. Spillane WF Anesthesiology 91:1971, 1999]

*Murray JF. Intensive Care: A Doctor's Journal. University of California Press, 2000. 296pp. US$27.50 [Rev. Swanton J. Library J 15 May 2000, p.120]

*Naqvi NH, Blaufox MD. Blood Pressure Measurement: An Illustrated History. New York: Parthenon, 1998. 196pp. Illus. US$65.00 [Rev. Howell JD. Bull Hist Med 74:198-199, 2000]

*Anderson S, Berridge V. Opium in 20th-century Britain: pharmacists, regulation and the people. Addiction 95(1):23-36, 2000 [36 refs., 2 illus., 1 table]

*Allen GC, Stool SE. History of pediatric airway management. Otolaryngol Clin North Am 33(1):1-14, February 2000 [14 refs., 6 illus.]

*Bacon DR. Francis H. McMechan, M.D.: Internationalist (1879-1939). ASA Newsletter 63(9):7-8, September 1999 [4 illus.]

*Baraka A. The contributions of Arabs to medicine. Middle East J Anesthesiol 15(4):353-359, 2000 [6 refs., 2 illus; rep. MEJA V7N5, 1984]

*Baraka A. Historical aspects of opium. Middle East J Anesthesiol 15(4):423-436, 2000 [7 refs., 18 illus. Rep. MEJA V6N5, 1982]

*Baraka A, Ramez Salem M, Joseph NJ. The origin of the algorithm. Middle East J Anesthesiol 15(4):449-450, 2000 [5 refs. Rep. Anesthesiology 89:233, 1998]

*Bastron RD. The evolution of informed consent. Anesthesiology 89(3A):A87, September 1998 [Abstract]

*Bednarska-Zytko I. Heliodor Swiecicki: precursor of anesthesia with nitrous oxide in obstetrics. Pol Merkuriusz Lek 7(42):293-295, December 1999 [Polish]

*Bellucci G. The hope of anaesthesia. Lancet 354 suppl 4:5, December 1999 [1 illus.]

*Benad G. 25 years "Anesthesiology and Reanimation"--a historical review. Anaesthesiol Reanim 25(1):4-11, 2000 [German]

*Bergman NA. Notable 18th century pneumaticists. Anesthesiology 89(3A):A86, September 1998 [Abstract]

*Bergman NA. Why did Humphry Davy not administer an anesthetic in 1800? Anesthesiology 85(3A):A926, September 1996 [Abstract; 4 refs.]

*Berman JC. Robert Alvin Berman, M.D.: airway inventor (1914- ). ASA Newsletter 63(9):17-19, September 1999 [7 illus., 1 portrait]

*Black PM. Harvey Cushing at the Peter Brent Brigham Hospital. Neurosurgery 45:990-1001, 1999 [49 refs., 12 illus., 1 table]

*Boldt J, Maleck W. Fate of presentations given at German anesthesia congresses. Anaesthetist 48:802-806, 1999 [German]

*Booij HHDJ. The history of neuromuscular blocking agents. Curr Anaesth Crit Care 11(1):27-33, February 2000

*Bromage PR. Obituary: Dr. Richard G.B. Gilbert 1909-1999. Can J Anesth 47:377-379, 2000 [portrait; English and French text]

*Calicott RW, Waisel DB. The founder of United States Air Force anesthesia training programs. Anesthesiology 85(3A):A953, September 1996 [Abstract]

*Calmes SH. Operations in the home. Anesthesiology 89(3A):A96, September 1998 [Abstract]

*Calmes SH. Sir James Young Simpson and American women in medicine. Anesthesiology 85(3A):A928, September 1996 [Abstract; 5 refs.]

*Cheng TO. Acupuncture anaesthesia for open heart surgery. Heart 83(3):256, March 2000 [1 ref., 1 illus.; describes a Chinese stamp issued in 1975]

*Clemons BJ. The first modern operating room in America. AORN J 71(1):164-170, January 2000 [18 notes, 3 illus.]

*Davenport HT. The 19th century Mr. Anaesthesia. Curr Anaesth Crit Care 10(6):325-328, December 1999 [G.Q. Colton; 17 refs., 4 illus.]

*Defalque RJ. S.E.E. (Skophedal), Wehrmacht's "miracle" drug. Anesthesiology 85(3A):A949, September 1996 [Abstract; 3 refs.]

*Deranian HM. The great Morton-Jackson debate. J Mass Dent Soc 46(2):24-25, summer 1997 [2 refs., 2 illus.]

*Devulder B. Immortal aspirin. Rev Med Interne 21 suppl 1: 5s-7s, March 2000 [French; editorial]

*Fairman J. Economically practical and critically necessary? The development of intensive care at Chestnut Hill Hospital. Bull Hist Med 74:80-106, 2000 [see also Fairman J. New Hospitals, New Nurses, New Spaces: The Development of Intensive Care Units, 1950-1965. PhD dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1992]

*Edwards A. 2000 years of treating pain. Analgesia 11(1):8-13, April 2000 [49 refs.]

*Franco A, Diz JC, Garcia A, Cortes J, Alvarez J, Aneiros FJ. Cecilio Pla's The Discovery of Anesthesia: the contribution of a painting to anesthesia history. Anesthesiology 88:1387-1389, 1998 [9 refs., 3 illus.]

*Geshwind M. Dr. Chamberlen's anodyne teething necklaces. J Hist Dent 43(3):115-118, November 1999 [10 refs., 3 illus.]

*Giesecke AH Jr. Under-recognized heroes of anesthesiology. ASA Newsletter 63(9):5, September 1999

*Goerig M. The Eppendorf University Hospital, Hamburg---a cradle of German-speaking anesthesia? Anasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther 34(10):603-615, October 1999 [German]

*Goerig M, Agarwal K. Historical remarks on the concept of small-volume resuscitation. Anesthesiology 89(3A):A88, September 1998 [Abstract]

*Goerig M, Agarwal K. Georg Perthes--the man behind the technique of nerve-tracer technology. Reg Anesth Pain Med 25(3):296-301, May-June 2000 [27 refs., 5 illus.]

*Goerig M, Schulte am Esch J. Mysterious August Bier--Father of spinal anesthesia--a precis. Anesthesiology 89(3A):A93, September 1998 [Abstract; 6 refs.]

*Goudsouzian N. Historical abstract: The Hyderabad Chloroform Commission. Paed Anaesth 9:365-366, 1999 [4 refs.]

*Green NM. Laureates of the history of anesthesia, 2000. ASA Newsletter 64(4):26, April 2000 [2 portraits: NA Bergman and TB Boulton]

*Guralnick WC, Kaban LB. Keeping ether in vogue: the role of Nathan Cooley Keep, M.D., D.M.D., in the history of etherization. Harvard Dent Bull 6(1):8-13, spring 1997 [17 refs., 3 illus.]

*Haddad FS. Perspectives on the history of anesthesia. Middle East J Anesthesiol 15(4):393-396, 2000 [Includes timeline. Rep. MEJA V14N1, 1997]

*Hamilton GR, Baskett TF. In the arms of Morpheus: the development of morphine for postoperative pain relief. Can J Anesth 47(4):367-374, April 2000 [63 refs.]

*Hasegawa GR. Pharmacy in the American Civil War. Am J Health-Syst Pharm 57:475-489, March 1, 2000 [153 refs., 9 illus., 2 appendices]

*Hingtgen CM. The painful perils of a pair of pianists: the chronic pain of Clara Schumann and Sergei Rachmaninov. Semin Neurol 19 suppl 1:29-34, 1999 [16 refs., 4 illus.]

*Holzman RS. Without pain or without insensibility: origins of "anaesthesia." Anesthesiology 89(3A):A85, September 1998 [Abstract; 11 refs.]

*Holzman RS. The legacy of Atropos, the fate who cut the thread of life. Anesthesiology 85(3A):A952, September 1996 [Abstract; 9 refs.]

*Holzman RS. The development of laryngoscopy: an historical crossroads for anesthesiology and otolaryngology. Anesthesiology 85(3A):A948, September 1996 [Abstract; 10 refs.]

*Jasser MT. Anesthesia in Arab and Islamic medicine. Middle East J Anesthesiol 15(4):415-422, 2000 [26 refs., 2 illus. Rep. MEJA 5:125-128, 1978]

*Juvin P, Brecknell M, Desmonts JM. First case reports of cardiac massage in human beings. Anesthesiology 85(3A):A935, September 1996 [Abstract; 4 refs.]

*Juvin P, Vadam C, Desmonts JM. The ancestors of inhalation anesthesia: the sleeping sponges (IXth-XIXth century). Anesthesiology 89(3A):A90, September 1998 [Abstract; 3 refs.]

*Karch SB. Cocaine: history, use, abuse. J Roy Soc Med 92:393-397, August 1999 [47 refs., 2 illus.]

*Knight PR. Curtis L. Mendelson, M.D.: aspiration investigator (1913- ). ASA Newsletter 63(9):14-16, September 1999 [1 portrait]

*Koetter KP, Maleck WH, Petroianu GA. Eisenmenger's biomotor--precursor of active-compression-decompression cardiopulmonary resuscitation? Anesthesiology 89(3A):A89, September 1998 [Abstract; 13 refs.]

*Kopp VJ. Henry K. Beecher, M.D.: Contrarian (1904-1976). ASA Newsletter 63(9):9-11, September 1999 [1 portrait]

*Kuhnert N. A century of aspirin. The history of the most successful drug of the last century. Pharm Unserer Zeit 29(1):32-39, January 2000 [German]

*Levesque H, Lafont O. Aspirin throughout the ages: a historical review. Rev Med Interne 21 suppl 1: 8s-17s, March 2000 [French]

*Mandabach MG. The history of epidural anesthesia. Reg Anesth Pain Management 25(2, suppl):4, March-April 2000 [abstract; 6 refs.]

*Marak B, Vasdev GM, Scott KP, Southorn P. John Silas Lundy: the first auditor of anesthesia records. Anesthesiology 89(3A):A94, September 1998 [Abstract; 1 ref., 1 table]

*McIntyre JWR. Evolution of 20th century attitudes to prophylaxis of pulmonary aspiration during anaesthesia. Can J Anaesth 45(10):1024-1030, 1998 [40 refs., 4 tables]

*McLeod KS. Our sense of Snow: the myth of John Snow in medical geography. Soc Sci Med 50(7-8):923-935, April 2000 [3 maps, 1 table, numerous refs.]

*Mildenberger J, Roewer N. Wurzburg in the history of anesthesia. Anasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther 34 suppl 4:S223-S249, November 1999 [German]

*Neelakanta G. Tip of straight blade laryngoscope: above or underneath the epiglottis? Anesthesiology 89(3A):A95, September 1998 [Abstract; 8 refs.]

*Pembrook L. Opioids have been used to treat pain since 3400 B.C. Anesthesiology News 26(4):25, April 2000

*Postler MA, Waisel DB. An historical perspective on opium and its therapeutic uses throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Anesthesiology 85(3A):A950, September 1996 [Abstract]

*Reshetar RA, Norcini JJ, Mills LE, Kelley MA, Rackow EC. The first decade of the American Board of Internal Medicine certification in critical care medicine: an overview of examinees and certificate holders from 1987 through 1996. Crit Care Med 28(4):1191-1195, April 2000 [7 refs., 2 illus., 2 tables]

*Ring ME. Dr. John Riggs and Mark Twain. Periodont Clin Invest 19(2):26-28, 1997 [1 portrait of Riggs]

*Rosenberg H. Robert Andrew Hingson, M.D.: OB analgesia pioneer (1913-1996). ASA Newsletter 63(9):12-13, September 1999 [1 portrait]

*Salem MR. Discovery of the pulmonary circulation by an Arab in the thirteenth century. Middle East J Anesthesiol 15(4):437-440, 2000 [6 refs., 1 illus. Rep. Anesth Analg V47N5, 1968 and MEJA V4N3, 1974]

*Sands RP Jr. James Otis Elam, M.D.: respiratory researcher (1918-1995). ASA Newsletter 63(9):20-21, September 1999 [1 portrait]

*Sgan SL. Therapeutic uses of cocaine: a historical review. Pharos 61(1):23-28, winter 1998 [30 refs., 5 illus.]

*Shehata MA. The larynx in Islamic medicine. Middle East J Anesthesiol 15(4):441-447, 2000 [15 refs. Rep. MEJA 6:113-119, 1981]

*Shephard DAE. History of Canadian anesthesia: Dr. Emerson A. Moffitt (b.1924). Can J Anaesth 46(12):1191-1192, 1999 [1 portrait]

*Spielman FJ. The post-anesthesia room: a life saver. Am J Anesthesiol 27(3):153-154, April 2000 [1 illus.; part of the journal's "Art and Anesthesia" series]

*Stephens MB, Fenton LA, Fields SA. Obstetric analgesia. Primary Care 27(1):203-220, March 2000 [123 refs., 2 tables]

*Sternbach GL, Varon J, Fromm RE. The resuscitation greats. Claude Beck and ventricular defibrillation. Resuscitation 44(1):3-5, March 2000

*Strickland RA. The physicians who influenced Alice Magaw. Anesthesiology 85(3A):A951, September 1996 [Abstract; 3 refs.]

*Takrouri MSM, Seraj MA. Middle Eastern history of anesthesia. Middle East J Anesthesiol 15(4):397-413, 2000. [23 refs. Rep. MEJA V14N1, 1997]

*Vassallo SA. James Young Simpson: the birth of obstetrical anesthesia. Anesthesiology 85(3A):A925, September 1996 [Abstract; 4 refs.]

*Vertosick FT Jr. Why We Hurt: The Natural History of Pain. New York: Harcourt, June 2000. 304p. US$24.00 [Includes historical context; rev. Cress-Ingebo R. Library J March 15, 2000, p.121]

*Waisel DB. The World War II Anesthesiology Newsletter: Anlet, A.A. Anesthesiology 85(3A):A954, September 1996 [Abstract; 2 refs.]

*Weaver KK. John Snow. In: Schlager N, ed. Science and Its Times. Volume 5: 1800-1899. Detroit: Gale, 2000, pp 373-374

*Winslow RM. Artificial blood: ancient dream, modern enigma. Nature Biotechnol 16:621-622, July 1998 [8 refs., 1 illus.]

*Wright AJ. Modern anesthesia is developed. In: Schlager N, ed. Science and Its Times. Volume 5: 1800-1899. Detroit: Gale, 2000, pp 296-299 [3 refs., 1 illus.]

*Wright AJ. James Young Simpson. In: Schlager N, ed. Science and Its Times. Volume 5: 1800-1899. Detroit: Gale, 2000, pp 372-373

*Wright AJ. Horace Wells, D.D.S.: rebel with a cause (1815-1848). ASA Newsletter 63(9):6, 11, September 1999 [1 illus.]