FROM THE LITERATURE

A.J. Wright, M.L.S.
Department of Anesthesiology Library
University of Alabama at Birmingham

ajwright@uab.edu 

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 materials are so indicated. Columns for the past several years are available as "Recent Articles on Anesthesia History" in the "Anesthesia History Files" at http://www.anes.uab.edu/aneshist/aneshist.htm  I urge readers to send me any citations, especially those not in English, that I may otherwise miss!

BOOKS

Burke KG. From Research Lab to Routine Procedure: A Case Study of the Swan-Ganz Catheter, 1965-1980. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 2001. 207pp.

De Ridder M. Heroin: vom Arzneimittel zur Droge. Frankfurt; New York: Campus, 2000. 217pp [references p. 199-215; German; based on the author's doctoral thesis, Freie Universitat Berlin, "Heroin, die Geschichte einer pharmazeutischen Spezialitat"]

Hamilton J. Faraday: The Life. London: HarperCollins, 2002. 465pp.

Kitz R, ed. "This is No Humbug!" Reminiscences of the Department of Anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Ashland, Ohio: Atlas Books, 2003. 459pp.

Lai DC, ed. Holding Court with the Ghost of Gilman Terrace: Selected Writings of Ralph Milton Waters, M.D. Park Ridge, Illinois: Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology, 2002. 212pp. [rev. Horton J. Br J Anaesth 90:262-263, 2003]

Maltby JR, ed. Notable Names in Anesthesia. London: Royal Society of Medicine, 2002. 254pp. [rev. Miller EV. Anesth Analg 96:634-635, 2003; Shephard DAE. Can J Anesth 50(1):97, 2003]

Maruna S. The Mad Gasser of Mattoon: Dispelling the Hysteria. Swamp Gas Book Company, 2003. [First monograph about the gasser or "phantom anesthetist" episode in Mattoon, Illinois, in 1944--one of the major 20th century examples of mass hysteria--or was it?]

Sheffield C. The Amazing Dr. Darwin. Baen, 2002. 336pp. [Six fanciful stories featuring Charles Darwin's grandfather, Dr. Erasmus Darwin, one of the Lunar Society supporters of Dr. Thomas Beddoes' gas research at the Pneumatic Medical Institute in Bristol in the late 18th-century; rev. Cassada J. Libr J 127(11):100, June 15, 2002]

Uglow J. The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Change the World. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002. [Describes the work of England's Lunar Society: James Watt, Joseph Priestley, Erasmus Darwin, Matthew Boulton and others; the Society supported Thomas Beddoes' research on gases at the Pneumatic Medical Institute. Rev. Woodcock W. Netsurfer Books Vol. 5, no. 2, February 14, 2002]

Vinten-Johansen P, Brody H, Paneth N, Rachman, Rip M. John Snow: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 2003. 448pp.

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

All in the family for 31 years: ASA Executive Director Glenn W. Johnson to retire. ASA Newsletter 66(10): 21-22, October 2002 [2 illus.]

Alston TA. The contributions of A.W. Hofmann. Anesth Analg 96:622-625, 2003 [6 illus., 22 refs.]

Bacon DR. Spotlight on...Maurice Albin, M.D.: neuroanesthesiologist and historian extraordinaire. ASA Newsletter 67(1):24-25, January 2003 [2 illus.]

Bacon DR. The final curtain call: goodbye, 'Joshua' Emanuel M. Papper, M.D., Ph.D., 1915-2002 ASA Newsletter 67(1): 35, January 2003 [portrait]

Bailly J-S, et al. Secret report on mesmerism, or animal magnetism. Int J Clin Exp Hypn 50(4): 364-368, October 2002 [extensive references]

Ball C, Westhorpe R. Local anaesthesia--before cocaine. Anaesth Intens Care 31(1):3, February 2003 [Cover note series; 2 illus., 2 refs.]

Barras V. Obituary: Roy Porter, 1946-2002. Gesnerus 59(3-4): 256-257, 2002

Bigelow's account of Morton's 1846 anesthesias. J Civil War Med 7(1):4-9, January-March 2003 [rep. Bigelow HJ. Insensibility during surgical operations produced by inhalation. Boston Med Surg J 35:309-317, 1846]

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. Lanchester J. New Yorker January 6, 2003, pp 80-84]

Byrick RJ. Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society Gold Medal: Dr. David Richard Bevan. Can J Anesth 49(9): 993-996, 2002 [English and French; illus.; includes list of Gold Medal recipients' since 1962]

Cable G. In-flight hypoxia incidents in the Australian Defence Force, 1990-2001. Anaesth Intens Care 31(1):115, February 2003 [abstract; 2 refs.]

Calmes SH. Arthur Guedel, M.D., and the eye signs of anesthesia. ASA Newsletter 66(9): 17-19, September 2002 [1 portrait, 2 illus., 8 refs.]

Chast F. L'opium dans l'art et la litterature. Arts et Biologie 39:17-30, December 2001 [French]

Chestnut DH. Academics and history: UAB creates History of Anesthesia Section. ASA Newsletter 66(9):32, September 2002

Conlay LA. Monitoring: the story behind the story. ASA Newsletter 66(9): 5, 31, September 2002 [2 illus., 2 refs.]

Cope DK. Monitoring in the 19th century: from blood-letting to blood-flow measurements. ASA Newsletter 66(9): 6-8, September 2002 [2 illus., refs. on ASA WWW site]

Cope DK. Phantom limb and causalgia pain in the three great wars. ASA Newsletter 66(10): 11-13, October 2002 [2 illus., 6 refs.]

Cover story: John Snow, physician, detective, and the father of epidemiology. The Handle [magazine of the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health] 1(1): 5, 2002

Craig DB, Martin JT. Anesthesia and Analgesia: Seventy-five years of publication. Anesth Analg 85:237-247, 1997 [4 illus., 1 table, 6 refs.]

Daves P. Crawford W. Long, M.D. J Civil War Med 7(1):17-19, January-March 2003 [rep. J Med Assoc Georgia 88(2):34-35, April 1999]

Erickson JC III. Anesthesia, respiration and the stethoscope. ASA Newsletter 66(9): 9-10, September 2002 [2 illus.]

Felix Hoffmann ist der "Vater" des Aspirin. Philatelia Medica 30(118): 2, May 2000

Forrest D. Mesmer. Int J Clin Exp Hypn 50(4): 295-308, October 2002 [extensive references]

Forrester J. Roy Porter (1946-2002). History Workshop J 54:267-271, autumn 2002

Fosburgh LC. Nurse anesthesia and religious sisters: Sister Secundia Mindrup. AANA J 65(3):219-220, June 1997 [2 illus., 4 refs.]

Franklin B, et al. Report of the commissioners charged by the king with the examination of animal magnetism. Int J Clin Exp Hypn 50(4): 332-363, October 2002 [extensive references]

Hagner M. Roy Porter (31. Dezember 1946-4. Marz 2002). NTM 10(3):188-189, 2002

Hermes TH. En recuerdo de Roy Porter. Dynamis 22: 523-528, 2002 [Spanish]

Kape S. Pretty in pink. ASA Newsletter 66(8):20, August 2002 [Dr. Kape describes her experience giving ether anesthesia in 1958]

Keller TM. California's Cushing connection: Harvey Cushing trained California's first neurosurgeons. J Neurosurg 97(3):728-735, September 2002 [8 illus., 1 table, 63 refs.]

Kihlstrom JF. Mesmer, the Franklin Commission, and hypnosis: a counterfactual essay. Int J Clin Exp Hypn 50(4): 407-419, October 2002 [extensive references]

Laurence J-R. 1784. Int J Clin Exp Hypn 50(4): 309-319, October 2002 [Franklin Commission report on Mesmer released in 1784; extensive references]

Lema MJ. ...Our NEWSLETTER's evolution: a brief history of the NEWSLETTER. ASA Newsletter 62(1):22, January 1998 [includes list of editors and their tenures]

Littlewood R. Memoriam: Roy Porter. Anthropol Med 9(2):193, August 2002

Losavio K. Kathryn E. McGoldrick, MD prepares her legacy in anesthesia. Anesthesiol News 29(2):28-29, February 2003

Lynn SJ, Lilienfeld S. A critique of the Franklin Commission report: hypnosis, belief and suggestion. Int J Clin Exp Hypn 50(4): 369-386, October 2002 [extensive references]

Martini JA, Bacon DR, Vasdev GM. Edward Tuohy: the man, his needle, and its place in obstetric analgesia. Reg Anesth Pain Med 27(5):520-523, September-October 2002 [3 illus., 18 refs.]

McConkey KM, Perry C. Benjamin Franklin and mesmerism, revisited. Int J Clin Exp Hypn 50(4): 320-331, October 2002 [extensive references]

McIntosh N. Intensive care monitoring: past, present and futre. Clin Med 2(4):349-355, July-August 2002

Oliver R. Making the Modern Medical School: The Wisconsin Stories. Canton, Massachusetts: Science History, 2002 [notable for what is NOT covered; Ralph Waters is mentioned briefly only on pages 62 and 107; Erwin Schmidt is mentioned on page 93]

Otis L, ed. Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. [Includes a section "Mesmerism and Magnetism" pp. 391-420]

Owens WD. Anesthesia Foundation receives bequest from Dorothy Thompson Larson, M.D. ASA Newsletter 66(8): 19, August 2002 [includes description of the career of Dr. Larson, "one of the first anesthesiologists in Nebraska."]

Pearce JMS. Early account relating head pain to cervical spinal disorders. J Hist Neurosci 11(3): 301, 310, September 2002 [refs.]

Pediatric anesthesia: growing up big and strong. ASA Newsletter 62(2):7-8, February 1998 [2 refs.]

Pierce EC Jr. ASA monitoring guidelines: their origin and development. ASA Newsletter 66(9): 22-23, September 2002

Porter D. Roy Porter (1946-2002). History Workshop J 54: 265-267, autumn 2002

Professor Emanuel Papper. Times (London, England). January 7, 2003, p. 31 [obituary]

Rathmell JP, Brown DL. Evolution of pain medicine training in the United States. ASA Newsletter 66(10): 6-8, October 2002 [2 illus., 1 table]

Rendell-Baker L, Bause GS. Cardiorespiratory monitoring: a pictorial sampler. ASA Newsletter 66(9): 11-16, September 2002 [numerous illustrations]

Savarese JJ. Monitoring of neuromuscular function: past, present and future. ASA Newsletter 66(9):20-21, September 2002 [10 refs.]

Schmidt PJ, Leacock AG. Forgotten transfusion history: John Leacock of Barbados. Br Med J 325:1485-1487, December 21-28, 2002 [refs.]

Shermer M. Mesmerized by magnetism. An 18th-century investigation into mesmerism shows us how to think about 21st-century therapeutic magnets. Sci Am 287(5):41, November 2002

Spiegel D. Mesmer minus magic: hypnosis and modern medicine. Int J Clin Exp Hypn 50(4): 397-406, October 2002 [extensive references]

Stiles MM. Spotlight on...Daniel W. Platt, M.D.: "The type of physician of which legends are made." ASA Newsletter 66(10): 23, 28, October 2002 [portrait]

Sullivan RL Jr. Doctors Day and research--something to brag about. ASA Newsletter 57(2): 5-6, February 2003

Szallasi A. Harvey Cushing and Hungary. In: Burns CR, et al, eds. Proceedings of the 37th International Congress on the History of Medicine [Galveston, Texas, 10-15 September 2000]. Galveston: University of Texas Medical Branch, 2000, pp 113-114 [10 refs.]

Zorab J. History of anaesthesia. Anaesthesia 57: 1242, 2002 [Illus., p. 1241; quotes from an unknown 16th-century poet describing God's removal "without pain" of one of Adam's ribs]