FROM THE LITERATURE

A.J. Wright, M.L.S.

Department of Anesthesiology Library

University of Alabama at Birmingham

http://www.anes.uab.edu/libraryinformation.htm 

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

Blaufox MD. An Ear to the Chest: An Illustrated History of the Evolution of the Stethoscope. Boca Raton, Florida: Parthenon, 2002. 145pp. [rev. Hurst JW. JAMA 288(12):1530, 2002; rev. Langone J. New York Times 12 November 2002]

Clark D. Cicely Saunders, Founder of the Hospice Movement: Selected Letters 1959-1999. Oxford University Press, 2002. 397pp. [in the early 1960s Saunders developed the concept of "total pain"; see Clark's piece at http://www.ampainsoc.org/pub/bulletin/jul00/hist1.htm]

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. Mormon E. Chemical Heritage 20(4): 35-36, 2002-2003]

Fink BR, McGoldrick KE, eds. Careers in Anesthesiology: Autobiographical Memoirs. Nicholas M. Greene, Erwin Lear, Jerome H. Modell, Leroy D. Vandam. Volume IV. Park Ridge, Illinois: Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology, 2000. 183pp. [rev. Bacon DR. Bull Hist Med 76:650-652, 2002]

Fink BR, McGoldrick KE, eds. Careers in Anesthesiology: Autobiographical Memoirs. Peter J. Safar. Volume V. Park Ridge, Illinois: Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology, 2000. 379pp. [rev. Bacon DR. Bull Hist Med 76:650-652, 2002]

Fullmer JZ. Young Humphry Davy: The Making of an Experimental Chemist. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2000. 385pp. [rev. Brock WH. Chemical Heritage 20(2): 47-48, 2002]

Maltby JR. Notable Names in Anaesthesia. London: Royal Society of Medicine, 2002. 254pp. [rev. Cass NM. Anaesth Intens Care 30(6):819, 2002; rev. Wilkinson DJ. Anaesthesia 57:1150-1151, 2002; rev. Drury PME. Br J Anaesth 89(5):805, 2002]

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. [rev. Bailey RJ. Anaesth Intens Care 30(5):706-707, 2002]

McKenzie A. A History of Anaesthesia through Postage Stamps. Edinburgh: Maclain Dubois, 2000. 148pp. [rev. Didier P. Anesthesiology 97(4):1043, 2002]

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. [rev. Mifflin J. Bull Hist Med 76: 831-832, 2002]

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

Anghelescu D. Tematica: aspirina. Medifila 46-47:22-24, 2002

Ball C, Westhorpe R. Intravenous induction agents: propofol. Anaesth Intens Care 30(5): 543, 2002 [Cover Note; illus., 4 refs.]

Ball C, Westhorpe R. Intravenous induction agents: opioids. Anaesth Intens Care 30(6):717, 2002 [Cover Note; illus., 6 refs.]

Bond MR. Pain. In: Blakemore C, Jennett S, eds. The Oxford Companion to the Body. London: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp 516-518 [3 refs.]

Boon M. The Road to Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2002. 320pp. [Based on author's dissertation at New York University; includes extensive material on anesthetic agents. Rev. Library J 127(19):71, 2002]

Caton D. Ralph M. Waters, M.D., and Professionalism in Anesthesiology: A Celebration of 75 Years. Anesthesiology 98(1): 286, 2003 ["Report of Scientific Meeting" series; 1 ref.]

Caton D, Antognini JF. The development of concepts of mechanisms of anesthesia. In: Antognini JF, Carstens E, Raines DE, eds. Neural Mechanisms of Anesthesia. Totowa, New Jersey: Humana, 2002, pp 3-10 [39 refs.]

Cavenaile R. Anaesthesiology in Graeco-Roman antiquity. Med Secoli 13(1):25-46, 2001 [Italian; 37 refs.]

Chaves JF, Dworkin SF. Hypnotic control of pain: historical perspectives and future prospects. Int J Clin Exp Hypn 45(4):356-376, 1997 [numerous refs.]

Dally A. Pain, social perception. In: Blakemore C, Jennett S, eds. The Oxford Companion to the Body. London: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp 518

Davenport-Hines R. The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics. New York: W.W. Norton, 2002. 576pp. [Includes discussion of Crawford Long and ether; rev. Blue PY. Library J 127(13):115, 2002; Kenneally C. New York Times 29 September 2002]

Eger EI II, Eisenkraft JB, Weiskopf RB. History of modern inhaled anesthetics. In: Eger EI II, Eisenkraft JB, Weiskopf RB. The Pharmacology of Inhaled Anesthetics. San Antonio: Dannemiller, 2002, pp 1-6 [25 refs.]

Felts JH. Henry Ingersoll Bowditch and Oliver Wendell Holmes: stethoscopists and reformers. Perspect Biol Med 45(4): 539-548, 2002 [35 refs.]

Goerig M, Schulte am Esch J. Early contributions for the development of nitrous oxide-oxygen anesthesia in central Europe. Anaesthesiol Reanim 27(2): 42-53, 2002 [German; 15 illus., 57 refs.]

Gravitz MA. Mesmerism and Masonry: early historical interactions. Am J Clin Hypn 39(4):266-270, 1997 [16 refs.]

Hall GM. Graham Smith, Editor 1987-1997. Br J Anaesth 80(4):413-414, 1998 [illus.]

Henderson G. Opiates and opioid drugs. In: Blakemore C, Jennett S, eds. The Oxford Companion to the Body. London: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp 506-507

Hladky SB. Anaesthetic mechanisms. In: Blakemore C, Jennett S, eds. The Oxford Companion to the Body. London: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp 27-29

Hobson JA. Feeling no pain: the nartcotics. In: Hobson JA. The Dream Drugstore: Chemically Altered States of Consciousness. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2001, pp 271-285 [2 illus., 1 table]

Kaplan R. The timeless caricatures of James Gillray. British Heritage 23(5):53-55, 2002

Kaska SC, Weinstein JN. Ernest Amory Codman, 1869-1940. A pioneer of evidence-based medicine: the end result idea. Spine 23(5):629-633, 1998 [2 illus., 17 refs.]

Kotansky R. An early Christian gold lamella for headache. In: Mirecki P, Meyer M, eds. Magic and Ritual in the Ancient World. Leiden: Brill, 2002.

Leonard M. Carl Koller: mankind's greatest benefactor? The story of local anesthesia. J Dent Res 77(4):535-538, 1998 [6 refs.]

Lindgren C. Orpheus as symbol of resuscitation. Lakartidningen 99(34): 3322-3323, 2002 [Swedish]

Michenfelder JD. Positive experimental demonstration of the negative brain "protective" effects of anesthetics following cardiac arrest. Anesthesiology 97(4):1005-1006, 2002 ["Classic Papers Revisited" series; 7 refs.]

Neve M. In memoriam: Roy Porter 31 December 1946-3 March 2002. Bull Hist Med 76(4):791-793

Nunn JF. Conscious volunteers developed hypoxemia and pulmonary collapse when breathing air and oxygen at reduced lung volume. Anesthesiology 98(1):258-259, 2003 ["Classic Papers Revisited" series; 4 refs.]

Reed KL. A brief history of anesthesiology in dentistry. Texas Dent J 119(3):219-220, 222-224, 2002

Rosenberg H. Daniel I. Sessler, M.D.: recipient of the 2002 Excellence in Research Award. Anesthesiology 97(6):778-779, 2002 [portrait]

Rutledge RH. An old Yankee surgeon entertains a new idea. Surgery 121(5): 575-580, 1997 [John Collins Warren; 10 illus., 31 refs.]

Saxon W. Emanuel M. Papper, 87, pioneer in anesthesiology at Columbia, dies. New York Times 6 December 2002

Smith K. No laughing matter: Horace Wells, humanitarian dentist, and later dope fiend. In: Raw Deal: Horrible and Ironic Stories of Forgotten Americans. New York: Blast Books, 1998

Southorn PA, Warner ME, Sessler AD, Rehder K. The legacy of Albert Faulconer Jr. Anesth Analg 95: 1108-1111, 2002 [3 illus., 19 refs.]

Spiegel AD. A. Lincoln, Esquire: A Shrewd, Sophisticated Lawyer in His Time. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2002. [Includes material on the murder case in which Lincoln defended a man who plead insanity caused by his overdose of chloroform for surgery four months before the crime.]

Susnis M. Humphry Davy's letters. Chemical Heritage 20(4):26-27, 2002-2003]

Swissman N. Alan D. Sessler, M.D., to receive 2002 Distinguished Service Award. ASA Newsletter 66(8): 17, 2002 [portrait]

Tallis F. Hidden Minds: A History of the Unconscious. Arcade, 2002. 208pp. [Includes material on Franz Mesmer; rev. Valencia D. Library J 127(15):79, 2002]

Uglow, Jenny. The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World. Farrar, 2002. 512pp. [History of England's late eighteenth-century Lunar Society, which included men important in early history of gases such as Joseph Priestley, Josiah Wedgwood, James Watt, Erasmus Darwin, and Thomas Beddoes. Rev. Andrews RJ Library J 127(17):85, 2002; Dirda M. Washington Post 3 November 2002, BW15; Furbank PN. NY Rev Bks 19 December 2002, 46-47, 50]

Walton S. Out of It: A Cultural History of Intoxication. London: Hamish Hamilton, 2001. [some mentions of chloroform, ether, and nitrous oxide]

Wildsmith JAW. History and development of local anaesthesia. In: Wildsmith JAW, Armitage EN, McClure JH, eds. Principles and Practice of Regional Anaesthesia. 3rd. ed. Philadelphia: Churchill Livingstone, 2002, pp 1-7 [7 illus., 19 refs.]

Wilkinson DJ. A strange little book. Anaesthesia 58:36-41, 2003 [Book is a privately bound one by Simpson trainee James Mathews Duncan; paper based on presentation to History of Anaesthesia Society meeting in July, 2002; 5 illus.]

Woollam CHM. The Sister anaesthetists of Norwich. Anaesthesia 57: 984-994, 2002 [11 illus., 2 tables, 38 refs.]

Zeilinga de Boer J, Hale JR. The Oracle of Delphi: was she really stoned? Odyssey Archaeology 5(6): 46-53, 58-59 [Discusses possibility that ethylene was the gas inhaled; includes material on work by Isabella Herb and others. 9 illus., 4 refs.]

Zuck D. Anaesthesia, general. In: Blakemore C, Jennett S, eds. The Oxford Companion to the Body. London: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp 25-27 [illus., 4 refs.]

Zuck D. Anaesthesia, local. In: Blakemore C, Jennett S, eds. The Oxford Companion to the Body. London: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp 27 [2 refs.]

Zuck D. Analgesia. In: Blakemore C, Jennett S, eds. The Oxford Companion to the Body. London: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp 29-30 [3 refs.]