FROM THE LITERATURE March 2002

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 or William Halsted]. 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

Barr M. Surgery, Sand and Saigon Tea. An Australian Army Doctor in Vietnam. Allen and Unwin, 2001. 252pp. [rev. Boulton TB. Anaesthesia 57: 104, 316, 2002; Gray D. Br J Anaesth 88:464-465, 2002]

Blaufox MD. An Ear to the Chest: An Illustrated History of the Evolution of the Stethoscope. CRC Press, 2001. 120pp.

Curtis JR, Rubenfeld GD. Managing Death in the Intensive Care Unit: The Transition from Cure to Comfort. Oxford University Press, 2001. 388pp. [rev. Ware LR. NEJM 346:542, February 14, 2002]

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. Samuels SI. JAMA 286:2877-2878, 2001 ]

Fink BR, McGoldrick KE, eds. Careers in Anesthesiology, Autobiographical Memoirs, Volume 3. Park Ridge, Ill.: Wood Library-Museum, 1999. 214pp. [rev. Calmes S. Bull Hist Med 75:831-832, 2001]

Fink BR, McGoldrick KE, eds. Careers in Anesthesiology, Autobiographical Memoirs, Volume 4. Park Ridge, Ill.: Wood Library-Museum, 2000. 181pp. [rev. Maltby JR. Can J Anesth 48:1172, 2001; Bailey RJ. Anaesth Intens Care 29:675, 2001]

Hodgson B. In the Arms of Morpheus: The Tragic History of Laudanum, Morphine, and Patent Medicines. Firefly, 2001. 160pp. [rev. Arsenault K. Library Journal January 2002 pp 141, 144]

Owen, Charles A., Jr. A History of Blood Coagulation. Mayo Foundation, 2001. 355pp. [rev. Kwaan HC. JAMA 287:1051-1052, February 27, 2002]

Pain and Suffering in History: Narratives of Science, Medicine and Culture. Papers Presented March 13-14, 1998, at the History of Pain Symposium, University of California, Los Angeles. The University, 1999

Safar P. Careers in Anesthesiology: An Autobiographical Memoir, Volume 5. Park Ridge, Ill.: Wood Library-Museum, 2000. 397pp. [rev. Reilly PF. Anaesth Intens Care 29:675-676, 2001 ]

Standl T, Goerig M, Schulte am Esch J. 35 Jahre Lehrstuhl fur Anasthesiologie am Universitatsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf. Zur Entwicklung einer anasthesiologischen Einrichtung. Hamburg: The Department, 2001. 67pp. Illus.

Trubuhovich RV, Judson JA. Intensive Care in New Zealand. A History of the New Zealand Region of ANZICS. privately printed, 2001 (?). 150pp. [rev. Winship S, Wang J. Br J Anaesth 87:946, 2001

Wolfe RJ. Tarnished Idol: William T.G. Morton and the Introduction of Surgical Anesthesia. Norman, 2001. 672pp. [rev. Caton D. NEJM 346:70, January 3, 2002; Torpy JM. JAMA 287:1327-1328, March 13, 2002]

Ball C, Westhorpe R. Intravneous induction agents: benzodiazepines. Anaesth Intens Care 30: 3, 2002 [cover note; 1 illus., 7 refs.]

Ball C, Westhorpe R. Induction agents: "Avertin." Anaesth Intens Care 29:571, 2001 [cover note; 1 illus., 5 refs.]

Bollet AJ. Civil War Medicine: Challenges and Triumphs. Galen Press, 2002. [Has some material on anethesia pp 76-81; blood transfusions pp 185-186; and opium and morphine pp 238-242]

Bracourt H. First intravenous injections: the infusions of the 17th century. Rev Prat 51(14):1519-1523, September 15, 2001 [French]

Brown T. Popular Patents: America's First Inventions from the Airplane to the Zipper. Scrarecrow Press, 2000. [Includes Jackson and Morton's patent for anesthesia, pp 27-28; and two other inventions Jackson tried to claim for himself: Schonbein's guncotton pp 98-99 and Morse's telegraph, pp 176-178]

Buzello TF, van der Schyff SG. Curare in medicine: in search of a disease (a historical perspective). Eur J Anaesthesiol 18, suppl 23: 106, 2001 [abstract; 1 table, 8 refs.]

Caponi G. Claude Bernard and the boundaries of experimental physiology. Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhis 8:375-406, 2001 [Portuguese]

Chaloner EJ, Ham RJ. Amputations at the London Hospital 1852-1857. J Roy Soc Med 94:409-412, 2001 [Notes results of amputations under ether vs. under chloroform. 1 chart, 3 tables, 12 refs. Response by Howat DDC. J Roy Soc Med 94:657, 2001]]

Charlton E. Patrick David Wall FRS, DM, FRCP. Honorary member AAGBI, 1925-2001. Anaesthesia 56:1202, 2001 [Obituary]

Cope DK. Mortality during the first 25 years of general anesthesia in America: contemporary outcome studies. Am J Anesthesiol 28:455-460, 2001 [Rep. Bull Anesth Hist 17(3):12-17, 1999; 5 illus., 21 refs.]

Crenner C. Organizational reform and professional dissent in the careers of Richard Cabot and Ernest Amory Codman, 1900-1920. J Hist Med Allied Sci 56:211-237, 2001

Diaz JH. Call all anesthetists to service in World War II. Anesthesiology 96:776-777, 2001 [Correspondence; response to Waisel DB. Anesthesiology 94:907-914, 2001. 2 refs. Waisel DB. Response. Anesthesiology 96:777, 2002. 1 ref.]

Egger EI II. A brief history of the origin of minimum alveolar concentration (MAC). Anesthesiology 96:238-239, 2002 [Classic Papers Revisted series; 8 refs.]

Ekiert LJ. The history of tranquilizing and sleeping drugs. Arch Hist Filoz Med 63(3-4):126-128, 2000 [Polish]

50th anniversary volume of the Japanese Journal of Anesthesiology. Masui 50 suppl: 1-289, September 2001. [Japanese]

Hanson III CW, Durbin CG Jr, Maccioli GA, et al. The anesthesiologist in critical care medicine: past, present and future. Anesthesiology 95: 781-788, 2001 [4 illus., 41 refs.]

Hart GD. Description of blood and blood disorders before the advent of laboratory studies. Br J Haematol 115: 719-728, 2001 [10 illus., 25 refs.]

Hawkes E, Leafty C, Ruth C, Scott R, Sharp L. Nurse anesthesia: the silent profession. Windows in Time 9(2): 5-6, November 2001

Horvitz LA. Eurkea! Scientific Breaththroughs that Changed the World. Wiley, 2002. 256pp. [includes Joseph Priestley's isolation of oxygen]

Howat DDC. Amputations at the London Hospital, 1852-1857. J Roy Soc Med 94:657, 2001 [Correspondence. 3 refs. Response to Chaloner EJ. J Roy Soc Med 94:409-412, 2001]

Hyson JM Jr. Man and pain: eternal partners. J History Dent 49(3):115-121, November 2001 [38 refs.]

Jones JT. Brian Francis Horan: editor 1982-1988. Anaesth Intens Care 29:461-462, 2001 [Obituary. Portrait.]

Kiss I. From anaesthesia for neurosurgery to neuroanaesthesia. A historical note. Acta Neurochir (Wien) 142:1391-1395, 2000 [3 illus., 25 refs.]

Koehler PJ, van de Wiel TWM. Aretaeus on migraine and headache. J Hist Neurosci 10:253-261, 2001 [27 refs.]

Kopp VJ. World War II and physician specialization. Anesthesiology 96:776, 2002 [Correspondence; response to Waisel DB. Anesthesiology 94:907-914, 2001. 10 refs. Waisel DB. Response. Anesthesiology 96:777, 2002. 1 ref.]

Kotiniemi L, Autio S, Hyrynkangas K. Anaesthetic history of a patient: 250 anaesthetics in 30 years. Anaesthesia 57:207-208, 2002 [correspondence; 3 refs.]

Kuhlen FJ. History of pain and pain treatment. Pharm Unserer Zeit 31(!):13-22, 2002 [German]

Mathews TP. Vietnam vet gives anesthesia history lesson. ASA Newsletter 66(2):37-38, February 2002 [correspondence]

Morell J. Aspirina: 100 anos de publicidad (1899-1999). BSAHCFC: butlleti de la Societat d'Amics de la Historia i de la Ciencia Farmaceutica Catalana 10(26):36, May-August 2001 [Spanish]

Newson AJ. All here are agog with the chloroform. Aust NZ J Surg 70:862-869, 2000 [2 illus., 21 refs.]

Norman J. The British Journal of Anaesthesia: an informal history of the first 25 years. Br J Anaesth 88:445-450, 2002

O'Dowd MJ. "Anesthesia and analgesia dn the curse of Eve. In: The History of Medications for Women: Materia medica woman. Parthenon, 2001, pp 275-295 [18 illus., numerous refs.]

Patterson R. Charles Thomas Jackson, MD, Vesuvius, and the idea of surgical anaesthesia. J Med Biog 9:220-225, 2001 [2 illus., 20 refs.]

Pelis K. Blood standards and failed fluids: clinic, lab, and transfusion solutions in London, 1868-1916. Hist Sci 39:185-213, 2001 [131 refs.]

Plourde G. Claude Bernard, the spinal cord, and anesthesia. Anesthesiology 95:1542, 2001 [Correspondence; 8 refs.]

Prout G. Seishu Hanaoka. Medifila nos. 42-43: 44, 2001

Riess KO, Millman-Guller L. MHAUS celebrates the 20th anniversary of its founding. Am J Anesthesiol 28:461-462, 2001

Shealy CN, Cady RK. Historical perspective of pain management. In: Weiner RS, ed. Pain Management: A Practical Guide for Clinicians. 6th ed. CRC Press, 2001, pp 9-16 [1 illus., 2 tables, references, annotated bibliography]

Shephard DAE. John Snow and resuscitation. Resuscitation 49:3-7, 2001 [3 illus., 16 refs.]

Simpson P, Popat M. "Anaesthesia: history and introduction. In: Understanding Anaesthesia. 4th ed. Butterworth Heinemann, 2002, pp 1-5

Takeda F. The development of use of oral morphine within the last 10 years in Japan. Eur J Pain 5(a):79-82, December 2001

von Hintzenstern U, Petermann H, Schwarz W. Early contributions from Erlangen to the theory and practice of general anesthsia with ether and chloroform. 2. The animal experiments of Ernst von Bibra and Emil Harless. Anaesthesist 50:869-880, 2001 [German; 6 illus., 31 refs. ]