FROM THE LITERATURE June 2002

 

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 or William Halsted]. I also include career profiles of living individuals. 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

 

BOOKS

Bradburne JM, ed. Blood: Art, Power, Politics, and Pathology. London: Prestel, 2002. 271pp.

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. Eger EI II. Anesthesiology 96(5):1280, May 2002; Hardy R. NonFictionReviews.com http://www.nonfictionreviews.com/article1214.html; brief excerpts on National Public Radio's program "All Things Considered August 6, 2001]

Dion K. Histoire de la Contention et de l'Anesthesie Veterinaires. Doctoral thesis, Ecole Nationale Veterinaire d'Alfort, 2001. 131pp.

Harris FH. Adjusting Expectations: Chiropractic, Pain and an Evolving American Health Care System. Ph.D. dissertation, New School University, 2000. 297pp.

Hills RL. James Watt: His Time in Scotland, 1736-1774. Ashbourne, England: Landmark Publishing, 2002. 416pp. [Volume 2 of this biography scheduled for 2003]

Hodgkiss A. From Lesion to Metaphor: Chronic Pain in British, French and German Medical Writings, 1800-1914. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2000. 218pp. [Clio Medica vol. 58; rev. Morris DB. Bull Hist Med 76:165-166, 2002]

Jeffreys D. Wonderdrug: The Remarkable History of Aspirin. Bloomsbury UK, scheduled for 2004.

McKenzie A. A History of Anaesthesia through Postage Stamps. Edinburgh: Maclain Dubois, 2000. 148pp. [rev. Van Wijhe M. Eur J Anaesthiol 19:234, 2002]

Sheffield C. The Amazing Dr. Darwin. Baen Books, 2002. 336pp. [novel based on the life of Dr. Erasmus Darwin, who among many other achievements support Thomas Beddoes' gas research at the Pneumatic Medical Institute in Bristol, England]

Stoljarenko P Yu. The Evolution of Anesthetization in Stomatology (From Antiquity to Modernity). Samara, Russia: Samara State Medical University, 2001. 172pp. [122 illus.; Russian]

Stoljarenko P Yu. The History of Lidocaine. Samara, Russia: Samara State Medical University, 2001. 36pp. [16 illus.; Russian]

Stoljarenko P Yu. Vasily Konstantinovich Annrep--Founder of Local Anesthesia. Samara, Russia: Samara State Medical University, 2002 32pp. [portrait, 6 illus.]

Tinniswood A. His Invention So Fertile: A Life of Christopher Wren. Oxford University Press, 2002. [rev. Hardy R. NonfictionReviews.com http://www.nonfictionreviewscom/article1276.html ; rev. Glassman P. Library J January 2002, p. 99. I don't know if this book cover Wren's work with intravenous injections]

 

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

Allan N. Remembering Roy Porter: a celebration of a life fulfilled. Friends of the Wellcome Library and Centre for the History of Medicine Newsletter no. 26:1, spring 2002 [obituary]

Ball C, Westhorpe R. Intravenous induction agents: ketamine. Anaesth Intens Care 30(2):115, April 2002 [illus., 6 refs.; Cover Note series]

Ball C, Westhorpe R. Intravenous inductions agents--Propanidid. Anaesth Intens Care 30(3):261, June 2002 [illus., 5 refs.; Cover Note series]

Baron P. Une famille de dentistes au XVIIIeme siecle: les Leroy de la Faudignere. Histoire des Sciences Medicales 36(1):55-73, January-March 2002 [French; has some material on analgesia]

Battistini G. I pionieri dell'anestesia. Giornale di Medicina Militare 149(5-6):291-295, September-December 1999

Bennett EJ. Anaesthesia in the Dili General Hospital, East Timor. Anaesth Intens Care 29:530-534, 2001 [1 illus., 3 tables, 2 refs.]

Berthelsen PG. On the first successful restoration of the beat of the heart, by open-chest massage, after collapse from chloroform inhalation. Bibliotek for Laeger 194(1):58-73, March 2002 [Danish]

Biderman A, Herman J. Did Weir Mitchell anticipate important concepts in ambulatory care and clinical epidemiology? J Clin Epidemiol 55:418-421, 2002 [27 refs.]

Bradley JP, Lee D. Anaesthesia in the United Nations military hospital, Dili, East Timor. Anaesth Intens Care 29:527-529, 2001 [1 illus., 4 tables, 2 refs.]

Burkle CM, Sands RP Jr., Bacon DR. Beyond blocks: the history of the development of technques in regional anesthesia. In: Raj PP, ed. Textbook of Regional Anesthesia. New York: Churchill Livingstone, 2002, pp 22-32 [10 illus., 67 refs.]

Cavenaile R. L'anesthesie chirurgicale dans l'antiquite Greco-Romaine. Medicina nei Secoli 13(1):25-46, 2001

Coni N. Medicine and the Spanish Civil War. J Roy Soc Med 95:147-150, March 2002 [includes blood transfusion; 25 refs.]

Cooper P. Humphry Davy: a Penzance prodigy. Pharmaceut J 264:920-921, 2000

Desbarax P. Morton's design of the early ether vaporisers. Anaesthesia 57: 463-469, 2002 [5 illus., 2 appendices, 14 refs.]

Dickenson AH. Gate control theory of pain stands the test of time. Br J Anaesth 88(6):755-757, June 2002 [9 refs.]

Dreyfuss M. Scott Augustine, MD, has dedicated his life to helping others. Anesthesiology Review 28(5):40, May 2002

Dubb A. Women in medicine: Virginia Apgar (1909-1974). Adler Museum Bulletin 27(2-3):18-19, November 2001

Ellis H. A History of Surgery. San Francisco: Greenwich Medical Media, 2001. 264pp. [includes material on anesthesia; rev. Toledo-Pereyra LH. JAMA 287:2147-2148, 2002]

Fromer M. Chaning the face of anesthesiology: the influence of the WWII short courses. ASA Annual Meeting News, October 13-17, 2001, p. 7

Gomart E. Methadone: six effects in search of a substance. Social Studies of Science 32(1):93-135, February 2002

Gourevitch D. La triade anesthesique dans le monde greco-romain. Cah Anesthesiol 49:309-314, 2001

Jacob MC, Sauter MJ. Why did Humphry Davy and associates not pursue the pain-alleviating effects of nitrous oxide? J Hist Med Allied Sci 57(2):161-176, April 2002 [54 refs.]

Kean CT. Frances F.T. Chung, MD, is transforming ambulatory anesthesia. Anesthesiology News 28(5):41, 45, May 2002 [illus., table]

Kety SS, Forster RE. Julius H. Comroe, Jr.: March 13, 1911-July 31, 1984. Biographical Memoirs 79:66-83, 2001

Knight PR III, Bacon DR. An unexplained death: Hannah Greener and chloroform. Anesthesiology 96(5):1250-1253, May 2002 [1 illus., 17 refs.]

Kopp SL, Horlocker TT, Bacon DR. The contribution of John Lundy in the development of peripheral and neuraxial nerve blocks at the Mayo Clinic: 1925-1940. Reg Anesth Pain Med 27(3):322-326, May-June 2002 [4 illus., 11 refs.]

Kuhnert N. Hundert Jahre Aspirin: die Geschichte des wohl erfolgreichsten Medikaments des letzten Jahrhunderts. Pharmazie in unserer Zeit 29 (1):32-39, 2000

Lai DC. History of pain relief. In: Warfield CA, Fausett HJ, eds. Manual of Pain Management. 2nd ed. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2002, pp. 3-5 [15 "Selected Readings"]

Lahoud GYG. Reflection: end of an era and a new beginning! Anaesthesia 57:412-413, 2002 [4 refs.; dental anesthesia]

Lanier K. Anesthesiologist Balovich dies at 81. Mobile [Alabama] Register, 17 April 2002 [Obituary for Dr. Vernon Nicholas Balovich]

Lawrence G. The hypodermic syringe. Lancet 359:1074, March 23, 2002

Lindahl SGE. Phlogiston-fire air-oxygen. The fascinating story of an 18th century discovery. Acta Anaesth Scand 46:1, 2002 [2 refs.; editorial]

Link J. World War II fundamentally changed the field of anesthesiology. Anesthesiology News 27(10): 32-33, October 2001 [based on Waisel DB. Anesthesiology 94:907-914, 2001]

Nutton V. Roy Porter 1946-2002. Friends of the Wellcome Library and Centre for the History of Medicine Newsletter no. 26:6-7, spring 2002 [obituary]

Pembrook L. A brief history of hypotensive epidural anesthesia. Anesthesiology News 28(4):48, April 2002

Raj PP. Historical aspects of regoinal anesthesia. In: Raj PP, ed. Textbook of Regional Anesthesia. New York: Churchill Livingstone, 2002, pp 3-21 [8 illus., 126 refs.]

Rovit RL, Couldwell WT. No ordinary time, no ordinary men: the relationship between Harvey Cushing and Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1928-1939. J Neurosurg 95:354-368, 2001 [10 illus., "Selected Bibliography"]

Severinghaus JW. Priestley, the furious free thinker of the enlightenment, and Scheele, the taciturn apothecary of Uppsala. Acta Anaesth Scand 46:2-9, 2002 [4 illus., 2 refs.]

Simmons JG. Doctors and Discoveries: Lives that Created Today's Medicine. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. [Includes chapters on Morton, pp157-161; Snow, pp 162-164; Cushing, pp 227-231; source notes for each chapter]

Sir James Young Simpson (1811-1870). Female Patient 15(1):28-29, January 2002 [2 illus.; Japanese]

Sourkes TL. Magendie and the chemists: the earliest chemical analyses of the cerebrospinal fluid. J Hist Neurosci 2002; 11(1):2-10 [4 illus., numerous references]

Speck WA. Joseph Priestley's American dream. Historian (London, England) no. 73:16-23, spring 2002

Sprigge JS. Sir Humphry Davy; his researches in respiratory physiology and his debt to Antoine Lavoisier. Anaesthesia 57:357-364, 2002 [5 illus., 3 tables, 45 refs.]

Sturgess R. Freud, Sherlock Holmes and Coca Cola: the cocaine connection. Pharmaceut J 265: 915-917, 2000

Thompson GE. Some historical perspectives on axillary plexus block. Reg Anesth Pain Med 27(3):333, May-June 2002 [letter; 4 refs.]

Weaver JM. Two notable pioneers in conscious sedation pass their gifts of pain-free dentistry to another generation. Anesth Prog 47: 27-28, 2000 [editorial about the late Drs. Harry Langa and Wayne Hiatt]

Zimmer M. Anesthesie par les courants: premieres applications chirurgicales. Histoire des Sciences Medicales 36(1):31-53, January-March 2002

Zuck D. Barbara Duncum (1910-2001). Med Hist 46(2):265, April 2002 [obituary]

 

 

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