FROM THE LITERATURE

A.J. Wright, MLS

Department of Anesthesiology Library

School of Medicine

University of Alabama at Birmingham

NOTE: This listing will appear in a future issue of the Bulletin of Anesthesia History.

*Bacon DR. The World Federation of Societies of Anesthesiologists: McMechan's Final Legacy? Anesth Analg 84:1130-1135, 1997. 16 refs., 6 illus.

*Bacon DR, Darwish H. Emery A. Rovenstine and regional anesthesia. Reg Anesth 22:273-279, 1997. 27 refs., 3 illus.

*Ball C, Westhorpe R. Clearing the airway--mouth gags, wedges and openers. Anaesth Intens Care 25:335, 1997. 2 refs., 2 illus. [cover note]

*Ball C, Westhorpe R. Clearing the airway--the cuffed pharyngeal airway. Anaesth Intens Care 25:603, 1997. 6 refs., 1 illus. [cover note]

*Ball C, Westhorpe R. The Oxford vaporizer. Anaesth Intens Care 26:129, 1998. 4 refs., 1 illus.

*Barr AM, Boulton TB, Wilkinson DJ, eds. Essays on the History of Anaesthesia. London: Royal

Society of Medicine, 1996. [International Congress and Symposium Series 213] [reviewed by Bailey RJ Anaesth Intens Care 25:320, 1997; Shephard DAE, Can J Anaesth 44:574-575, 1997; Somerville AW Jr., Anesthesiology 88:286-287, 1998; Weller R Anaesthesia 52:395, 1997]

*Barton CR, Beeson M. Anesthesia for trauma during wartime. CRNA 8:2-12, 1997. 13 refs., 1 illus.

*Brown DL, Fink BR. History of neural blockade and pain management. In: Cousins MJ, Bridenbaugh PO, eds. Neural Blockade in Clinical Anesthesia and Management of Pain. 3rd ed.

Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven, 1998, p. 3-27. 143 refs., 26 illus., 4 chronologies.

*Bruhn JG, Holmstedt B. Ethno-pharmacology in the past and future. Arrow poison's way to the medicine cabinet. Lakartidningen 94:4942-46, 1997 [Swedish]

*Catchlove R. A note on the history of the Canadian Pain Society: early development. Pain Res Manage 2(4):229-230, winter 1997. 1 table.

*Chambler AF, Emery RJ. Lord Moynihan cuts Codman into audit. Ann R Coll Surg Engl 79(4, suppl): 174-176, 1997. 3 illus., 5 refs. [Ernst Amory Codman and his End Result Idea]

*Colice GL. A historical perspective on intensive care monitoring. In: Tobin MJ, ed. Principles and Practice of Intensive Care Monitoring. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998, p. 1-31. 307 refs., 27 illus.

*Cooper MG. The history of anaesthesia in Australia---150 years. Anaesth Intens Care 25:221, 1997. 5 refs. [editorial]

*Cooper MG. Nathan P. Rice and Trials of a Public Benefactor, 1859---historical notes on the facsimilie of 1995. Anaesth Intens Care 25:289-291, 1997. 12 refs.

*Cousin MT. Sesquicentenary of chloroform. A still more wonderful and terrible anaesthetic agent than ether. Ann Fran Anesth Reanim 16:1037-1044, 1997

*Crenner CW. Introduction of the blood pressure cuff into U.S. medical practice: technology and skilled practice. Ann Int Med 128:488-493, 1998. 42 refs., 1 illus.

*Dally A. Pain disorders: social section. In: Berrios GE, Porter R, eds. A History of Clinical Psychiatry: The Origin and History of Psychiatric Disorders. New York: New York University Press, 1995, pp 203-211.

*Dookun R, Lyne JP, Robb ND. Nitrous oxide: past, present and future. SAAD Dig 14(1-2):13-35, 1997. 41 refs.

*Drury PME. Anaesthesia in the 1920s. Br J Anaesth 80:96-103, 1998. 76 refs.

*Eisenberg MS. Life in the Balance: Emergency Medicine and the Quest to Reverse Sudden Death.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1997 [rev. by Atkins JM in JAMA 279:801, 1998]

*Fairman J, Lynaugh JE. Critical Care Nursing: A History. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998

*Fink BR. Times of the signs: the origins of charting. Surv Anesthesiol 42:120-122, 1998. 9 refs. [Rep: Fink BR, Morris LE, Stephen CR, eds. The History of Anesthesia: Third International Symposium. Park Ridge, Ill.: Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology, 1992, pp 165-168]

*Fradin DB. "We Have Conquered Pain": The Discovery of Anesthesia. New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 1996. [Reviewd by Ellison N, Anesth Analg 84:944, 1997]

*Goerig M; Schulte am Esch J. Helmut Weese--an attempt at an appreciation of his importance for German-language anesthesia. Anasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther 32:678-685, 1997

*Goudsouzian N. He named "anaesthesia." Paediat Anaesth 7:254, 1997

*Gravenstein JS. Henry K. Beecher: the introduction of anesthesia into the university. Anesthesiology 88: 245-253, 1998. 23 refs., 1 illus.

*Greenwalt TJ. A short history of transfusion medicine. Transfusion 37:550-563, 1997. 4 illus., 130 refs.

*Hall GM. BJA citation classics 1945-1992. Br J Anaesth 80:4-6, 1998. 51 refs. [editorial]

*Hervas C, Cahisa M. On the 150th anniversary of the introduction of anesthesia in Spain: the role of dentists. Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim 44:16-22, 1997. 36refs., 3 illus. [Spanish]

*Hodgkiss A. Pain disorders: clinical section. In: Berrios GE, Porter R, eds. A History of Clinical Psychiatry: The Origin and History of Psychiatric Disorders. New York: New York University Press, 1995, pp 193-202.

*Jennett B. The history of the Glasgow Coma Scale: an interview with Professor Bryan Jennett. [interview by Carole Rush] Int J Trauma Nurs 3(4):114-118, October-December 1997

*King CP, Hug CC Jr. Survey of former recipients of research funding from the American Society of Anesthesiologists and the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research. Anesthesiology 88:519-524, 1998. 3 refs., 3 tables, illus.

*Koehler PJ. Etiology and pathophysiology of headache in the early 17th century, as illustrated by the work of Johan van Beverwijck. Cephalalgia 17:817-821, 1997

*Lemos de Vasconcelos V. Clocio Beltrao de Albuquerque (1935-1997). Rev Bras Anestesiol 47:565, 1997. [obituary]

*Lindqvist K. Xylocaine conquered the entire world--but the price of success was high. Lakartidningen 94:4890-5, 1997 [Swedish]

*List WF, Kernbauer Kenner T. Karl E. Hammerschmidt. Humanitarian, scientist and pioneer anesthesiologist. Anaesthesist 47:65-70, 1998

*Loeser JD. The history of pain project. Pain 73:1-2, 1997. [editorial]

*Lucas JM, Fernandes de Azevedo W. Antonio Americo Arruda (1916-1997). Rev Bras Anestesiol 47:564, 1997 [obituary]

*Martin HW. Wrestle mania of yesteryear. ASA Newsletter 61(11):35, November 1997. 1 illus. [letter] [Notes the professional wrestling career of Dr. John J. Bonica. See also letter by Soper L below.]

Morson A. Operative Chemist. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Editions Rodopi B.V., 1997. [biography of Thomas N.R. Morson (1799-1874), founder of a pharmaceutical firm that developed the British alkaloid industry; his publications included one on chloroform]

*Nolan SP, Zacour R, Dammann JF. Reflections on the evolution of cardiopulmonary bypass. Ann Thorac Surg 64:1540-1543, 1997. 7 refs.

*Nucci ML, Abuchowski A. The search for blood substitutes. Scient Amer 278(2):72-77, 1998. 3 refs., 5 illus.

*Oberman HA. The history of transfustion medicine. In: Petz LD, et al, eds. Clinical Practiceof Transfusion Medicine. 3rd ed. Churchill Livingstone, 1997, pp 11-32. 100 refs., 15 illus.

*Ocklitz A. Did cardio-pulmonary resuscitation already exist in Egypt 5000 years ago? Anesth Analg 86:S174, 1998. [abstract]

*Our medical heritage: the Crawford W. Long Museum--Jefferson, Georgia. South Med J 91:299, 1998. 1 illus.

*Papper EM. Anesthesia and the surgical experience. Perspect Biol Med 40:597-618, 1997

21 refs.

*Papper EM. Romance, Poetry, and Surgical Sleep: Literature Influences Medicine. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995. [Reviewed by Bacon DR, Bull Hist Med 70:725, 1996]

*Patterson R. Dr. Charles Thomas Jackson's aphasia. J Med Biogr 5:228-231, 1997. 17 refs., 2 portraits.

*Pernow B. Blood pressure was measured for the first time on a horse of a priest. Lakartidningen

95:532-533, 1998 [Swedish]

*Phillips GD. An early anaesthetic in Papua New Guinea. Anaesth Intens Care 25:286-288, 1996. 12 refs., 3 illus.

*Porter R, Teich M, eds. Drugs and Narcotics in History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. [Reviewed by Estes JW, Bull Hist Med 70:561-562, 1996]

*Proctor DF, ed. A History of Breathing Physiology. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1995. [Reviewed by Fye WB, Bull Hist Med 71:184-185, 1997

*Rey R. The History of Pain. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995 [reviewed by Kushner HI. Am Historical Rev 102(2):421-422, April 1997]

*Rosenberg H, Axelrod JK. Robert Andrew Hingson: his unique contributions to world health as well as anesthesiology. Am J Anesthesiol 25(2):90-93, 1998. 14 refs.

*Rushman GB, Davies NJH, Atkinson RS. A Short History of Anaesthesia. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1996. [Reviewed by Benson KT, Ambulatory Anesthesia 12(2):8-9, April 1997; Cass N Anaesth Intens Care 25:437-438, 1997; Shephard DAE Can J Anaesth 44:903, 1997; Wildsmith JAW Br J Anaesth 78:483-484, 1997]

*Sands Jr RP, Bacon DR. An inventive mind: the career of James O. Elam, MD (1918-1995). Anesthesiology 88:1107-1112, 1998. 26 refs., 3 illus.

*Scott MG, Kucik DF, Goodnough LT, Monk TG. Blood substitutes: evolution and future applications. Clin Chem 43:1724-1731, 1997. 81refs., 1 illus., 3 tables.

*Shapiro BA. The history of pH and blood gas analysis. Respir Care Clin N Am 1(1):1-5, 1995

*Shephard DAE. John Snow, Anaesthetist to a Queen and Edpidemiologist to a Nation: A Biography.

Cornwall, Prince Edward Island, Canada: York Point Publishing, 1995. [Reviewed by Eyler JM, Bull Hist Med 71:716-717, 1997

*Soper L. Dr. Bonica--"The Masked Marvel." ASA Newsletter 62(4):30, April 1998 [letter]

*Stammers AH. Historical aspects of cardiopulmonary bypass: from antiquity to acceptance.

J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 11:266-274, 1997. 52 refs., 9 illus.

*Steinhaus JE. Anesthesia Education at Emory, 1958-1985. Fernandina Beach, Fla.: Wolf, 1996.

[reviewed by Ellison N Anesth Analg 86:452-453, 1998]

*Takrouri MSM, Haddad FS. Death under anesthesia in the Middle East. Middle East J Anesthesiol

14:215-218, 1998. 7 refs.

*Thompson GE. From Pauchet to today: the French connection. Reg Anesth Pain Med 23:126-133, 1998. 32 refs., 4 illus., 4 tables.

*Vandam LD, Fox JA. Adolf Fick (1829-1901), physiologist: a heritage for anesthesiology and critical care medicine. Anesthesiology 88:514-518, 1998. 7 refs., 2 portraits, 2 illus.

*Wawersik J. History of chloroform anesthesia. Anaesthesiol Reanim 22(6):144-152, 1997. 68 refs., 6 illus., 5 tables. [German]

*West JB, ed. Respiratory Physiology, People and Ideas. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996 [Reviewed by Marty AT, Crit Care Med 25:558, 1997; Domino KB, Anesthesiology 87:1267, 1997; De Jongste JC, New Engl J Med November 28, 1996, p. 1692; Cugell DW, JAMA 278:1200, 1997; Tansey T, Bull Hist Med 71:744-746, 1997]

*Westhorpe R. Ether inhaler, 1847. Anaesth Intens Care 25:213, 1997. 3 refs., 1 illus.

*Wilkinson M. Migraine researchers---from Wolff to Humphrey. Cephalalgia 18, suppl 2: 1-4, 1998

*Williams G. The Age of Miracles: Medicine and Surgery in the Nineteenth Century. Chicago:

Academy Chicago Publishers, 1987. [Reviewed by Shafer A. Anesthesiology 88:1137-1138, 1998]

Wilson G. One Grand Chain: The History of Anaesthesia in Australia, 1846-1934. Melbourne: Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists, 1995 [Reviewed by Shephard DAE Can J Anaesth ?????????????:342, ?????????????; Suarez T, McPeek B Anesth Analg 83:895, 1996; Woolcock HR Med Hist 42:119-120, 1998; Zuck D Anaesthesia 51:1196, 1996]

*Wilson S, Creedon RL, George M, Troutman K. A history of sedation guidelines: where we are headed in the future. Pediatr Dent 18:194-199, 1996

*Wolfe RJ. Robert C. Hinckley and the Recreation of the First Operation Under Ether. Boston: Boston Medical Library, 1993. [reviewed by Bergman NA, Anesthesiology 81:793, 1994; Rutkow IM, Bull Hist Med 68:734-736, 1994; and Siker ES, JAMA 271:`1623-1624, 1994]

*Woolcock HR, Thearle MJ, Saunders K. "My beloved chloroform". Attitudes to childbearing in colonial Queensland. Soc Hist Med 10:437-457, 1997. 119 refs.