FROM THE LITERATURE

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."

[I would like to thank Dr. Joseph Rupreht of Rotterdam for alerting me to the items by Jukic and Pokorny below. I urge readers to send me any citations, especially those not in English, that I may otherwise miss!--A.J. Wright ajwright@uab.edu]

Booth M. Opium: A History. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1999. 381pp. [Rev. Young JH. Bull Hist Med 75:158-159, 2001]

Elkins J. Pictures of the Body: Pain and Metamorphosis. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. 347pp. [Rev. Gilman SL. Bull Hist Med 75:185-186, 2001]

Fenster JM. Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and the Haunted Men Who Made It. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 2001. 256pp.

Gootenberg P, ed. Cocaine: Global Histories. London: Routledge, 1999. 213pp. [Rev. Young JH. Bull Hist Med 75:158-159, 2001]

Jay M. Emperors of Dreams: Drugs in the Nineteenth Century. Sawtry: Dedalus, 2000. 277pp. [includes nitrous oxide, opium, ether, cocaine]

Jukic M. Anaesthesiology in Croatia (From Ivo Bettini until now, year 1998). Zagreb: Medicinska Naklada, 1999. 272pp. Illus. [Croatian]

Pokorny J, Bohus O, et al, eds. Anaesthesiology and Resuscitation in the Czech and Slovak Republic: On the Way to Specialty Independence. Prazska Vydavatelska Spolecnost, 1996. 184pp. Illus. [Czech]

Schulte am Esch J, Goerig M, eds. Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on the History of Anaesthesia. Lubeck: Verlag Drager Druck, 1999. 878pp. [Rev. Smith TC. Anesth Analg 92:1078, 2001]

Spillane JF. Cocaine: From Medical Marvel to Modern Menace in the United States, 1884-1920. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 214pp. [Rev. Courtwright DT. J Hist Med Allied Sci 56:89-90, 2001; Young JH. Bull Hist Med 75:158-159, 2001]

Altzinger G, Reckel P. History of aspirin in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Bull Soc Sci Med Grand Duche Luxemb 1:55-73, 2000 [French]

Bacon DR. The Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology: WLM dedicates curator's room in John Lundy's honor. ASA Newsletter 65(4):23, 2001. 2 illus.

Bacon DR, Albin M, Pender JW. Anesthesiology's greatest generation? Anesthesiology 94:725-726, 2001. 1 illus., 2 refs. [Editorial]

Ball C, Westhorpe R. The history of intravenous anaesthesia: the barbiturates, part 1. Anaesth Intens Care 29:97, 2001. Illus., 6 refs. [Cover note]

Batt RE, Bacon DR. Clarence J. Durshordwe, the International Anesthesia Research Society, and the World Federation of Societies of Anesthesiologists: the last true disciple of Francis Hoeffer McMechan. Anesth Analg 92:1349-1354, 2001. 5 portraits, 11 refs.

Bergfeld D, Hanke CW. Historical background. In: Hanke CW, Sommer B, Sattler G, eds. Tumescent Local Anesthesia. New York: Springer, 2001, pp. 5-8. 20 refs.

Bhatt AD. Aspirin: aspiring for a century (1899 to 1999) and the willow bark is still batting! J Assoc Physicians India 46:374-376, 1998

Bush GH. Gordon Jackson Rees FRCA FRCP FRCPCH, pioneer of paediatric anaesthesia. Anaesthesia 56:370-371, 2001. 1 portrait. [obituary]

Bush GH. Gordon Jackson Rees FRCA FRCP FRCPCH, pioneer of paediatric anaesthesia. European Academy of Anaesthesiology Newsletter no. 14: 14, May 2001. 1 portrait.

Bynum WF. Ether at University College Hospital 1846. In: Kaufman L, Ginsburg R, eds. Anaethesia Review 13: 1-4, 1997. 1 illus., 11 refs.

Carli F. Dr. John W. Sandison 1927-2000. Can J Anesth 48:316-317, 2001 [Obituary]

Cheng TO. Who discovered circulation of blood? Ann Intern Med 134: 1008-1009, 2001. 5 refs.

Cooper SM, Dawber RPR. The history of cryosurgery. J Roy Soc Med 94:196-201, 2001. 2 illus., 44 refs.

Cortiula M. Collecting blood for battle: the wartime origins of the transfusion service in New South Wales. J Roy Aust Hist Soc 85(2):105-119, 1999

Cousin M-T. L'apport des scientifiques francais a l'anesthesiologie: les curares et la jonction neuromusculaire. Hist Sci Med 34(3):219-230, 2000 [French]

Feurzeig L. Heroines in perversity: Marie Schmith, animal magnetism, and the Schubert circle. 19th Century Music 21(2):223-243, 1997

Gagnon RE, Macnab AJ, Blackstock D. An inventory of Canadian anesthesiology: human research from 1995 through 1999. Can J Anesth 48:452-458, 2001. 10 tables, 7 refs.

Giesecke AH. John F. Kennedy and M.T. "Pepper" Jenkins: a moment in Dallas that lasted 29 years. Am J Anesthesiol 28: 102-104, 2001. 3 illus., 5 refs. [Rep. Bull Anesth History 18(3):1,4-5, 2000]

Goldman ND. Nasal airway devices from ancient history to the present. Facial Plast Surg Clin N Amer 7:379-390, 1999. 16 illus., 39 refs.

Goldman R, Blickstein I. Dr. Virginia Apgar--1909-1974. Harefuah 140: 177-178, 2001 [Hebrew]

Guivarc'h M. Antoine-Joseph Jobert de Lamballe 1799-1867 ou l'Essor de la chirurgie moderne. Hist Sci Med 34(3):253-270, 2000 [French]

Harris NA, Hunziker-Dean J. Florence Henderson: the art of open-drop ether. Nurs Hist Rev 9:159-184, 2001. 4 illus., 68 notes.

Hawgood BJ. Silas Weir Mitchell (829-1914): toxicologist, neurologist and novelist. J Med Biog 8:63-70, 2000. 2 illus., 57 refs.

Hessel EA II. History of cardiac surgery and anesthesia. In: Estafanous FG, Barash PG, Reves JG, et al. Cardiac Anesthesia: Principles and Clinical Practice. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2001, pp. 3-35. 1 illus., 7 tables, 303 refs.

Howat DDC. Sir Frederic William Hewitt MVO MD. J Med Biog 8:123, 2000 [correction to author's article on Hewitt in J Med Biog 7:63-68, 1999]

Keynes M. The aching head and increasing blindness of Queen Mary I. J Med Biog 8:102-109, 2000. 4 illus., 59 refs.

Lawin P, Opderbecke HW, Schuster HP. History of the development of intensive care in Germany--contemporary reflections. 12. The development of intravenous infusion techniques from personal experience. Anaesthesist 48:919-923, 1999 [German]

Lehmann DF, Roberts G, Moellentin D. The search for a nonaddicting opioid. Pharos 64(1):24-27, 2001. 3 illus., 22 refs.

Leveau P. L'anesthesie et les techniques de reanimation des noyes. Hist Sci Med 34(3):249-252 [French]

Lopez-de la Pena XA. First anesthesia with ether in Aguascatientes, Mexico. Gac Med Mex 137:85-86, 2001. 10 refs. [Spanish]

Lundy JS. From this point in time: some memories of my part in the history of anesthesia. AANA J 65:323-328, 1997. 2 illus., 1 ref. [Rep. AANA J 34:95-102, 1966]

MacDougall S, Blair J. L'anesthesie survint rapidement; l'anesthesiste suivit plus lentement: histoire de la dissemination de la decouverte de l'anesthesie dans le Royaume Uni et les Etats Unis d'Amerique. Hist Sci Med 34(3):213-217, 2000 [French]

Maurizio B. L'analgesia generale in travaglio di parto: da James Young Simpson (1847) ai giorni nostri. Lanternino 23(3):12-17, 2000 [Italian]

McIntyre N. Medical statues: Claude Bernard (1813-1878). J Med Biog 9:15, 2001. 1 illus. [Bernard's statue in Paris]

Minagar A, Lowis GW. Dr. Heinrich Irenaeus Quincke (1842-1922): clinical neurologist of Kiel. J Med Biog 9:12-15, 2001. 1 portrait, 15 refs.

Pinkerton PH. Canada's transfusion medicine pioneer: Lawrence Bruce Robertson. Transfusion 41:283-286, 2001. 1 illus., 41 refs.

Rehfeld JF, Viby-Mogensen J. Poul Bjorndahl Astrup 14 August 1915-30 November 2000. European Academy of Anaesthesiology Newsletter no. 14: 6, May 2001. 1 portrait. [Obituary]

Rosenberg H, Axelrod JK. Two surgeons who popularized spinal anesthesia. Reg Anesth Pain Med 26: 278-282, 2001. 3 illus., 21 refs. [George Pitkin and Wayne Babcock]

Rosenstock C, Moller J, Hauberg A. Complaints related to respiratory events in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine from 1994 to 1998 in Denmark. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand 45: 53-58, 2001. 1 illus., 1 table, 13 refs.

Rupreht J. Relevant key-points from the history of anaesthesia at the eve of the third millenium. Minerva Anesthesiol 66: 849-852, 2000. 14 refs.

Scherpereel P. Professor Pascal Adnet. European Academy of Anaesthesiology Newseletter no. 14: 8, May 2001. 1 portrait. [Obituary]

Sieberth HG. History of the development of intensive care medicine. Part 13: historical overview of the treatment of acute kidney failure in Germany. Anaesthesist 49:58-64, 2000 [German]

Snow SJ. John Snow MD (1813-1858). Part I: a Yorkshire childhood and family llife. J Med Biog 8:27-31, 2000. 3 illus., 1 table, 20 refs.

Snow SJ. John Snow MD (1813-1858). Part II: Becoming a doctor--his medical training and early years of practice. J Med Biog 8:71-77, 2000. 2 illus., 45 refs.

Staggers N, Thompson CB, Snyder-Halpern R. History and trends in clinical information systems in the United States. J Nurs Scholarsh 33:75-81, 2001. table, extensive references.

Szulc R. Professor Witold Jurczyk MD PhD on his 70th birthday: an appreciation. Eur J Anaesthesiol 18:192-193, 2001

Tierris C. Dr. Steven Couremenos, FRCA. European Academy of Anaesthesiology Newseletter no. 14: 10, May 2001. 1 portrait. [Obituary; among other contributions Dr. Couremenos founded the Greek Society of Anaesthesiology in 1956]

Toman C. Canadian nursing and blood transfusion, 1942-1990. Nurs Hist Rev 9:51-78, 2001

Unzueta Merino MC, Hervas Puyal C, Villar Landeira J. Robert R. Macintosh and Spain: a fruitful relationship. Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim 48:21-28, 2001. 1 illus., 51 refs. [Spanish]

Waisel DB. The role of World War II and the European theater of operations in the development of anesthesiology as a physician specialty in the USA. Anesthesiology 94:907-914, 2001. 7 illus., 69 refs.

Zimmer M. Role du dentiste Christopher Starr Brewster et de certains medecins d'origine americaine dans les debuts de l'anesthesie. Hist Sci Med 34(3):231-248, 2000 [French]