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: I have examined most of the items listed in this column. 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

Dolan B. Wedgewood: The First Tycoon. Viking, 2004. 396pp.

Jeffreys D. Aspirin: The Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drug. Bloomsbury/St. Martin's, 2004. 352pp.

Joost, Vijselaar. De Magnetische geest: het Dierlijk Magnetisme, 1770-1830. Nijmegen: SUN, 2001. 559pp. [author's Universiteit Utrecht doctoral thesis on Franz Anton Mesmer and animal magnetism]

Lai DC. Barrell of Lunatics: Places Associated with the First Public Demonstration of Ether Anesthesia. Park Ridge, Illinois: Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology, 2003. 30pp. [rev. Smith HM. Anesthesiology 101: 1255-1256, 2004]

Lamont-Brown R. Humphry Davy. Sutton, 2004. 199pp.

McTavish JR. Pain and Profits: The History of the Headache and Its Remedies in America. Rutgers University Press, 2004. 240pp. [rev. Ferrari R. JAMA 292: 1894-1895, 2004]

Morris LE, Schroeder ME, Warner ME, eds. A Celebration of 75 Years Honoring Ralph Milton Waters, M.D. Mentor to a Profession. Proceedings the Ralph M. Waters Symposium on Professionalism in Anesthesiology Madison, Wisconsin, 2002. Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology, 2004. 260pp.

Scream: The History of Anaesthetics. 60 minutes. History Television, Canada. [first broadcast 31 October 2004]

Stolyarenko P.Yu. Friedrich Stolz (to the 100-anniversary of synthesis of adrenaline). The Monography. Samara (Russia), 2004. 76pp. (44 Illus, 73 refs, 7 portrait]

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

Alston TA. Chloroform, vitamin B12, and the tragic lives of Robert M. Glover and Horace Wells. Anaesthesia 59: 1147-1148, 2004 [letter; 6 refs.]

Altman LK. John Vane, Nobelist who helped in deciphering aspirin, dies at 77. New York Times 23 November 2004

Bacon DR. We all need heroes: a tale of two Richards and John. ASA Newsletter 68(7): 1-2, July 2004 [Drs. Richard Ament, Richard N. Terry, and John I. Lauria]

Bacon DR. Countdown to the centennial. ASA Newsletter 68(9):1, 4, September 2004

Baillie TW. Hans Christian Andersen's visit to James Young Simpson. Scott Med J 49(3):82-84, 2004 [2 illus., 6 refs.]

Ball C, Westhorpe R. Local anaesthetics--the origins of lignocaine. Anaesth Intens Care 32(5):611, October 2004 [1 illus., 4 refs.]

Bassell GM. In memoriam: Gertie F. Marx, M.D.-1912-2004. SOAP Newsletter spring 2004

Calthorpe N. The history of spinal needles: getting to the point. Anaesthesia 59:1231-1241, 2004

Christen AG, Christen JA. The triumph and tragedy of James Baxter Bean, MD, DDS (1834-1870). J Hist Dent 51(1):19-25, March 2003 [2 illus., 33 refs.; one of Bean's accomplishments was his invention of "an apparatus that manufactured and administered nitrous oxide."]

Conlay LA. Defining moments for the ASA and the ethics of style. 68(9): 5-6, 21, September 2004 [2 illus., 4 refs.]

Coonan T, Wills D. Dr. Ian Stewart Robb 1916-2004. Can J Anesth 51(8):848-849, 2004 [obituary]

Coursin DB. Col. Michael J. Murray, M.D., Ph.D.: Someone worth looking up to. ASA Newsletter 68(4): 30-32, April 2004 [2 illus.]

Gaul TS. Trance-formations: mesmerism and "a woman's power" in Louisa May Alcott's Behind a Mask. Women's Studies 32: 835-851, 2003

Gawande A. Complications--A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Sciences. Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2002. 269pp. [rev. Camann W. Anesthesiology 98:1525, 2003; some anesthesia content]

Grainge C. Breath of life: the evolution of oxygen therapy. J Roy Soc Med 97: 489-493, October 2004 [17 refs.]

Katikireddi V. Pain: passion, compassion, sensibility. BMJ 328:468, February 21, 2004 [3 illus.; review of a Wellcome Trust exhibiiton at the Science Museum]

Katz JD. Pain does not suffer misprision: an inquiry into the presence and absence that is pain. Med Human 30(2):59-62, December 2004

Larson MD. History of anesthetic practice. In: Miller RD, ed. Miller's Anesthesia. 6th ed. Elsevier Churchill Livingstone, 2004, pp. 3-52 [21 illus., 485refs.]

Martin C. Pain: passion, compassion, sensibility. Lancet 363:1083-1084, March 27, 2004 [3 illus.; review of a Wellcome Trust exhibiiton at the Science Museum]

Matsuki A. New study on the history of anesthesiology--(10). Prof. K. Shimizu and the Foundation of Japanese Society of Anesthesiology. Masui 53(2): 201-209, February 2004 [Japanese]

Matsuki A. New study on the history of anesthesiology--(9) a brief history of "N2O Study Society". Masui 52(5): 551-557, May 2005 [Japanese]

Ogunnaike BO, Giesecke AH. ASA Relative Value Guide (RVG): a defining moment in fair pricing of medical services. ASA Newsletter 68(11): 13-15, November 2004 [3 illus., 8 refs.]

One-hundred-fifty year old lessons of John Snow still relevant today. Michigan State University press release, August 26, 2004 http://www.newsroom.msu.edu/site/indexer/2112/content.htm [focuses on Peter Vinten-Johansen et al's book, Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine--A Life of John Snow]

Ransom ES Jr. Update on ASATT. ASA Newsletter 68(3): 17-18, March 2004 [1 table; some history of the organization]

Reiss B. The Springfield somnambulist: or, the end of enlightenment in America. Common-Place Vol. 4 no. 2, January 2004 http://www.common-place.org/vol-04/no-02/reiss/ [includes material on Franz Joseph Mesmer]

Rosenthal MH, Hughes FP. Certification in anesthesiology: where it's been where it's going. ASA Newsletter 68(9): 12-14, 32, September 2004 [3 illus.]

Schwartz AJ. Helen Lamb: some insight into her life and times--part 2. AAJA J 71(3):183-186, June 2003 [3 illus., 25 refs.]

Shifman E.M. Of 100 years of a headache: Clinical physiology of a headache after a puncture: the Grant for doctors. 2 edition corrected. Moscow - Petrozavodsk (Russia), 2004. - 64 p. There is a section " The History neuroaxialis methods of anesthesia -" a constant headache " (pp. 7-27 where there are 9 illus, 4 portraits, 47 refs).

Stolyarenko P.Yu. Friedrich Stolz (to the 100-anniversary of synthesis of adrenaline). Magazine " The Review Stomatology ", 2004, on September, 1, N 8 (20). - P. 7-8 (1 portrait).

Vickers N. Coleridge and the Doctors 1795-1806. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004. 186pp. [Includes chapter on Thomas Beddoes, pp 37-78]

Weaver JM. The powerful influence of Jay J. Jacoby MD, PhD, on dental anesthesiology training. Anesth Prog 50:51-52, 2003

Wilson VP. Janet G. Travell, MD: a daughter's recollection. Tex Heart Inst J 30(1): 8-12, 2003 [3 illus., 15 refs.