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 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

Beljaevskij AD, Monchenko GD. Sketches on a History of Anesthesiology. Rostov/Don. Publishing house of Rostov State Medical University, 2000. 168pp. Russian. [14 illus., 97 refs.]

Gregory A. Harvey's Heart: The Discovery of Blood Circulation. Totem Books, 2001. ISBN 1840462485

McGoldrick KE, ed. Careers in Anesthesiology: Autobiographical Memoirs. B. Raymond Fink, Luke Masahiko Kitahata, J. Roger Maltby, Thomas T. McGranahan. Volume VI. Park Ridge, Illinois: Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology, 2001. 189pp. ISBN 0750642l57 [rev. Padfield A. Anaesthesia 57:944-945. 2002; Shephard DAE. Can J Anesth 49(7):764-765, 2002; Barash P. Anesth Analg 95:259-260, 2002]

Rawstron RE. Anaesthesia: Notes on Anaesthetics in New Zealand. Palmerston North: privately printed, 2002. 129pp. ISBN 047308760X

Waterfield R. Hidden Depths: The Story of Hypnosis. London: Macmillan, 2002. 464pp. ISBN 0333779495

West JB. High Life: A History of High-Altitude Physiology and Medicine. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 493pp. [rev. Davenport HW. Bull Hist Med 73: 734-736, 1999

Wolfe RJ. Tarnished Idol: William Thomas Green Morton and the Introduction of Surgical Anesthesia: A Chronicle of the Ether Controversy. San Francisco: Norman Publishing, 2000. 672pp. ISBN 0-930405-81-1 [rev. Wright AJ. Library J 125(10):184-185, June 1, 2000]

Winter A. Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. 451pp. [rev. Pols H. Bull Hist Med 73:711-712, 1999]

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

Acker CJ. The technological fix: the search for a nonaddicting analgesic. In: Acker CJ. Creating the American Junkie: Addiction Research in the Classic Era of Narcotic Control. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. 276pp. ISBN 0801867983

Adgey JJ. Resuscitation in the past, present and the future. Ulster Med J 71(1): 1-9, May 2002 [3 illus., 34 refs.]

Announcing the Arthur E. Guedel Memorial Anesthesia Center web site! Bulletin of the California Society of Anesthesiologists 48(6): 51-52, November-December 1999

Bacon Dr. Gaston Labat, John Lundy, Emery Rovenstine, and the Mayo Clinic: the spread of regional anesthesia in America between the World Wars. J Clin Anesth 14:315-320, 2002 [6 portraits, 18 refs.]

Ball C, Westhorpe R. Intravenous induction agents: etomidate. Anaesth Intens Care 30(4):405, August 2002 [1 illus., 7 refs.]

Berggren L. Sigmund Freud discovered the therapeutic effects of cocaine, but all the credit went to Carl Koller. Lakartidningen 97(15): 1846-1847, April 2000 [Swedish]

Blakemore PR, White JD. Morphine, the Proteus of organic molecules. Chem Commun (11):1159-1168, June 7, 2002

Christen AG, Christen JA. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., MD: champion of dentistry. J Hist Dent 50(2):61-69, July 2002 [1 illus., 41 refs.; includes material on Holmes and anesthesia]

Cousin MT. Vulpian and not Claude Bernard first proposed the hypothesis of the motor end-plate as the site of action of curare. Anesthesiology 97(2):527-528, August 2002 [1 illus., 8 refs.]

Davies J, Westhorpe R. Appendix 3: a brief history of anaesthesia. In: Davies J. Westhorpe R, All About Anaesthesia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp179-183 [2 illus.]

Forrester J. Roy Porter (1946-2002). Hist Psychiat 13(pt. 2, no. 50):123-129, June 2002 [obituary]

Frank R. An aspirin for Beowulf: against aches and pains--ece and woerc. American Notes and Queries 15(2):58-63, spring 2002

Froggatt P. John Snow, Thomas Wakley, and The Lancet. Anaesthesia 57:667-675, 2002 [3 illus., 41 refs.]

Gilbert PK. "Scarecely to be described": urban extremes as real space and mythic places in the London cholera epidemic of 1854. Nineteenth-Century Studies 14: 149-172, 2000 [I have not examined this article and thus don't know if it includes material on John Snow.]

Haddad FS. Hail to the founder of the Middle East Journal of Anesthesiology: Dr. Bernard Brandstater MB, BS, FDCA, FANZCA, FACA, DA. Middle East J Anesthesiol 16(2):113-116, 2001 [1 portrait, 6 illus.]

Haddad FS. Anesthesia over the past 55 years: reminiscences of a neurosurgeon. Middle East J Anesthesiol 16(5):469-476, 2002 [5 refs.]

Hunter M. Roy Porter. History Today 52(6):6-7, June 2002 [obituary]

Kaplan BJ. A medical historian looks at the early days of anesthesiology. ASA Annual Meeting News October 15, 2001, pp 1, 5 [2 portraits: Dale Smith, PhD, and Lewis H. Wright, MD]

Kean C. Patricia Kapur's career combines management, research, caring. Anesthesiology News 27(9):16, September 2001

Matsuki A. A study on Seishu Hanaoka's "Nyugan Seimei Roku": a name list of breast cancer patients. Nippon Ishigaku Sasshi 48(1):53-65, March 2002. Japanese.

McGoldrick KE. Lewis H. Wright Memorial Lecture: David J. Wilkinson, M.B.B.S., F.R.C.A., to discuss 'Barts, Books, the Blues and Beyond: The Story of Christopher Langton Hewer.' ASA Newsletter 66(7):6,11, July 2002

Podoll K, Ayles D. Inspired by migraine: Sarah Raphael's 'Strip!' paintings. J Roy Soc Med 95:417-419, August 2002 [3 illus., 16 refs. Raphael was a British artist born in 1960 who died in 2001]

Podoll K, Robinson D. Visual migraine aura as source of artistic inspiration in professional painters. Neurol Psychiat Brain Res 9:81-94, 2001

Roy Porter. Medical Sciences Historical Society Newsletter no. 27:6, spring 2002 [obituary]

Rabinovich SA, Babikov AS, Moskovets ON, Anisimova EN. From bird's to a feather up to a computer syringe. Clin Stomatol #2: 50-53, #3:42-45, 2001 [Russian]

Scalea T. What's new in trauma in the past 10 years. Int Anesthesiol Clin 40(3):1-17, summer 2002 [4 illus., 2 tables, 30 refs.]

Schaffer S. Roy Sidney Porter (31 December 1946-3 March 2002). Social Studies of Science 32(3):477-486, June 2002

Schraag S. Theoretical basis of target controlled anaesthesia: history, concept and clinical perspectives. Best Pract Res Clin Anaesthesiol 15(1):1-17, March 2001

Schulz S. Die "Ara' der Bluttransfusionsapparate aus gerinnungsverzogernden Materialien im deutschsprachigen Raum. Anasth Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerztherap 36:87-90, 2001

Segala M. Animal electricity, animal magnetism, universal galvanism: in search of universal harmony between man and nature. Rev d'Histoir Sci 54(1):71-84, 2001

Severinghaus JW. Classic papers revisited: The invention and development of blood gas analysis apparatus. Anesthesiology 97(1):253-256, July 2002 [2 illus., 11 refs.]

Shafer A. The anesthesiologist and the arts. Hear the beat, start that line: poetry and anesthesia. Bulletin of the California Society of Anesthesiologists 48(6): 37-43, November-December 1999 [3 refs.]

Spirling LI, Daniels IR. Historical perspectives on health. William Stewart Halsted--surgeon extraordinaire: a story of 'drugs, gloves and romance.' J Roy Soc Promotion Health 122(2):122-124, June 2002 [9 refs.]

Stolyarenko P Yu. Vasily Konstantinovich Anrep, pioneer of local anesthesia (on the 150th anniversary of his birth). Stomatology Today no. 6:37, 2002. Russian. [portrait; 2 illus.]

Stolyarenko P Yu. The history of the creation and application of lidocainum. Endodontia Today 2(1-2):86-88, 2002. Russian. [6 illus.; 4 refs.]

Zimmer M. Galvanic and faradic power in anaesthesia. Hist Sci Med 36(1):31-53, January-March 2002. French. [14 illus., 105 refs.]