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 urge readers to send me any citations, especially those not in English, that I may otherwise miss!--A.J. Wright ajwright@uab.edu

Boon MB. The Road to Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs. Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, 2000. [includes anesthetics]

Fenster JM. Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and the Haunted Men Who Made It. New York: Harper Collins, 2001. 278pp. [rev. Musto DF. New York Times 12 August 2001]

Fink BR, McGoldrick KE, eds. Careers in Anesthesiology, Autobiographical Memoirs, Volume 4. Park Ridge, Ill.: Wood Library-Museum, 2000. 181pp. [rev. Ellison N. Anesth Analg 93:520, 2001]

McKenzie A. A History of Anaesthesia through Postage Stamps. Edinburgh: Maclean Dubois, 2000 [rev. Ball C. Anaesth Intens Care 29(4):443, 2001]

Safar P. Careers in Anesthesiology: An Autobiographical Memoir, Volume 5. Park Ridge, Ill.: Wood Library-Museum, 2000. 397pp. [rev. Finestone SC. Anesth Analg 93: 805, 2001]

Sarat A, ed. Pain, Death, and the Law. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001. 168pp. [Rev. Kessler M. Law and Politics Book Review 12:412-415, August 2001. Primarily pain in connection with capital punishment]

West JB. High Life: A History of High-Altitude Physiology and Medicine. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 493pp. [rev. Cueto M. Isis 92(1):141, March 2001]

Ali HM. Ten years of sanctions against Iraq: a personal experience in anaesthesia. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand suppl 115: 44, 2001 [abstract]

Ball C, Westhorpe R. The history of intravenous anaesthesia: the barbiturates. Part 2. Anaesth Intens Care 29(3): 219, June 2001 [6 refs., 1 illus. Cover note]

Ball C, Westhorpe R. The history of intravenous anaesthesia: the barbiturates. Part 3. Anaesth Intens Care 29(4): 323, August 2001 [3 refs., 1 illus. Cover note]

Ball C, Westhorpe R. Intravenous equipment--the ongoing development of the syringe. Anaesth Intens Care 28(2):125, April 2000 [3 refs., 1 illus. Cover note]

Bause H, Lawin P, Opderbecke HW, Schuster HP. History of the development of intensive care medicine. Part 9: architectural development of intensive treatment wards. Anaesthesist 48(9):62-653, September 1999 [German]

Bello CN, Torres MLA. Roberto Simao Mathias. Rev Bras Anestesiol 50(5):415, September-October 2000 [Portuguese; obituary]

Besson JM. Merci, Professeur P.D. Wall. Pain suppl 6: s3-s4, August 1999

Brown K. Two worlds of anaesthesia: east meets west, north meets south. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand suppl 115: 44, 2001 [abstract]

Brunton D. A question of priority: Alexander Wood, Charles Hunter and the hypodermic method. Proc Roy Coll Physicians Edinb 30:349-351, 2000 [30 refs.]

Burney IA. Fatal exposures: anesthetic death and the limits of public inquiry. In: Burney IA. Bodies of Evidence: Medicine and the Politics of the English Inquest 1830-1926. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000, pp 137-164 [76 refs]

Capobianco DJ, Boes CJ. John Locke and the case of Lady Northumberland: a new key to Locke. Headache Q 11(4): 292-294, 2000 [8 refs.]

Carranza R. In memoriam: Dr. Irene Assimes. Newsline: McGill Anethesia Newsletter summer 2001 pp30-31 [1 illus.]

Cohen S, Trnovski S, Zada Y. A new interest in an old remedy for headache and backache for our obstetric patients: a sphenopalatine ganglion block. Anaesthesia 56: 606-607, 2000 [4 refs.]

Dubner R. A tribute to Patrick D. Wall. Pain suppl 6: s1, August 1999

Dunwoody C, Dunajcik L, Edwards A, Ryder L, Sikorski K. In memoriam: Jean Adrienne Guveyan. Pain Management Nursing 2(2):37, June 2001 [1 portrait.]

Ekiert LJ. Historia lekow uspokajajacych i nasennych. Archiwum Historii I Filozofii Medycyny 63(3-4): 126-128, 2000 [Czech]

Elwood PC. Aspirin: past, present and future. Clinical Medicine 1(2):132-137, March-April 2001

Frolich MA, Caton D. Pioneers in epidural needle design. Anesth Analg 93:215-220, 2001 [21 refs., 2 illus., 1 table]

Gallagher RM. Perry MacNeal, M.D. Physician, teacher and gentleman 1913-1997. Headache Q 8(4):353-354, 1997 [1 portrait]

Gates P, Lawrence G. Morton kills pain. In: Gates P, Lawrence G. The History News: Medicine. Cambridge, Mass.: Candlewick Press, 1997, 16-17. [Illus.; juvenile]

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

Gunn IP. Pearl Harbor, the Korean Conflict, and COL Mildred Irene Clark. AANA J 68(6):487-490 [4 refs., 1 illus.]

Hameroff SR. Anesthesia. In: Brockman J, ed. The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2,000 Years. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000, pp 94-98

Hunt L, Jacob M. The affective revolution in 1790s Britain. Eighteenth-Century Studies 34(4):491-521, 2001 [135 refs., 2 illus. Includes discussion of the Bristol nitrous oxide experiments and the participation of Gregory Watt, Humphry Davy, and Thomas Beddoes.]

Kampine JP. David C. Warltier, M.D., Ph.D., to Receive 2001 Excellence in Research Award. ASA Newsletter 65(8):13, 21, August 2001 [1 portrait]

Lassio A. Molecules, Miracles and Medicine. St. Louis: Warren H. Green, 2000. 89pp. [Includes historical material on morphine, procaine, aspirin, and diazepam]

Lee MR. Wiliam Withering (1741-1799): a Birmingham lunatic. Proc Roy Coll Physicians Edinb 31:77-83, 2001 [21 refs., 6 illus. Withering was a member of the Lunar Society, which supported Thomas Beddoes' Pneumatic Institute in Bristol and thus the early nitrous oxide experiments]

Martini J, Vasdev G, Harrison B, Martin D, MacKenzie R. The evolution of the epidural needle: was it Tuohy's or Huber's design? Int J Obstet Anesth 10(3):249, July 2001 [7 refs.; abstract]

Maurizio B. L'analgeisa locoregionale nella practica ostetrica compie cento anni. Lanternino 24(1):16-19, 2001

McGoldrick KE. Lewis H. Wright Memorial Lecture: Dale C. Smith, Ph.D., to Discuss 'Anaesthetists: Arguments, Attainments and Authority, 1870-1920.' ASA Newsletter 65(7):8, July 2001 [1 portrait]

McKenzie AG. The discovery of the pain pathways of labour. Int J Obstet Anesth 10(3): 253-254, July 2001 [9 refs.; letter]

Meek T. Anaesthesia in an unusual location. Anaesthesia 56: 608-609, 2000 [2 refs., 2 illus. Trichloroethylene in a home workshop]

Morgeli C. Die Werkstatt des Chirurgen: zur Geschichte des Operationssaals. Basel: Editiones Roches, 1999. 319pp. [includes material on operating room history]

Neto GFD. Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology, more than fifty years old...now BILINGUAL. Rev Bras Anestesiol 51(1):1, 2001

Ouellette SM, Caulk RF. The International Federation of Nure Anesthetists: 10 years later. AANA J 68(3): 209-214 [4 refs., 5 tables]

Pelis K. Transfusion, with teeth. In: Bud R, Finn B, Trischler H, eds. Manifesting Medicine: Bodies and Machines. Harwood Academic Publishers, 1999, pp 1-30 [114 refs., 7 illus. Describes transfusion work of James Blundell]

Pelis K. Blood standards and failed fluids: clinic, lab, and transfusion solutions in London, 1868-1916. History of Science 39(pt. 2, no. 124), June 2001

Pembrook L. International Anesthesia Research Society celebrates 75 years. 27(6): 1, 28, June 2001

Quintner JL. From neuralgia to peripheral neuropathic pain: evolution of a concept. Reg Anesth Pain Med 26(4):368-372, July-August 2001 [43 refs.]

Rushman G. Obituary: Richard Stuart Atkinson, OBE. Anaesthesia 55:416-417, 2000 [1 portrait]

Schwarz A. The mercury sphygmomanometer and its inventor. Scalpel & Tongs 45:28, March-April 2001

Severinghaus JW. Priestley, the furious free thinker of the enlightenment. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand suppl 115: 33, 2001 [abstract]

Spielman FJ. The Civil War: anesthesia comes of age. J Civil War Med 5(2):9-12, April-June 2001

Spielman FJ. Transplantation surgery: moment of truth. Am J Anesthesiol 28: 243-245, June 2001 [3 refs., 1 illus. Art and Anesthesia series]

Sternbach GL, Varon J, Fromm RE, Sicuro M, Baskett PJ. Galen and the origins of artificial ventilation, the arteries and the pulse. Resuscitation 49(2):19-122, May 2001 [20 refs.]

van Ackern K. Prof. Dr. Bernd Landauer zum 60. Geburtstag. Anasthesiologie Intensivmed 41: 868, 2000 [1 portrait]

van Ackern K. Prof. Dr. Klaus Geiger zum 60. Geburtstag. Anasthesiologie Intensivmed 41:870, 2000 [1 portrait]

Weeks S. In memorial: Dr. Paul Edward Otton. Newsline: McGill Anesthesia Newsletter summer 2001, p. 32

Wetchler BV. Thomas Drysdale Buchanan or Henry Isaiah Dorr: give credit to both. Anesthesiology 95(1): 271-272, July 2001 [7 refs.; letter]

Yates DW. Can deficiencies of trauma care be identified and treated--changing patterns of trauma care in UK hospitals from 1988 to 1997. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand suppl 115: 43, 2001 [abstract]

Yuesha Y, Fanzhi Z. Contribution of Soranus of Ephesus on Apgar score. Chung-Hua I Shih Tsa Chih 31(2):110-112, April 2001 [Chinese with English abstract]