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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
Baker B.
Australia’s First Anaesthetic Department 75 Years at the RPA. Camperdown,
N.S.W.: Jobson Foundation, 2005. 172pp. [Illus., names index]
Flannery MA. Civil War
Pharmacy: A History of Drugs, Drug Supply and Provision, and Therapeutics for
the Union and Confederacy. Pharmaceutical Products Press, 2004. 347pp.
[rev. Haller JS Jr. J Hist Med Allied Sci 60:234-235, 2005]
Hayes B. Five Quarts: A
Personal and Natural History of Blood. New York: Ballantine Books, 2005.
290pp. [ref. lists, index]
Jeffreys D. Aspirin: The
Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drug. Bloomsbury/St. Martin's, 2004. 352pp.
[rev. Bagchi S. JAMA 293:1268-1269, 2005]
Kitz R, ed. "This is
No Humbug!" Reminiscences of the Department of Anesthesia at the
Massachusetts General Hospital. Ashland, Ohio: Atlas Books, 2003. 459pp. [rev.
Calicott RW. Bull Hist Med 79:162-163, 2005]
Hamilton J. A Life of
Discovery: Michael Faraday, Giant of the Scientific Revolution. New York:
Random House, 2004. 496pp. [Illus., maps, notes, bibliography, index.
Rev. Rutter S. Library J January 2005, pp 142, 147]
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.
Calmes SH. Bull Hist Med 78:921-922, 2004]
Meldrum ML, ed. Opioids
and Pain Relief: A Historical Perspective. Seattle: IASP Press, 2003. 222pp.
[rev. Campbell ND. Bull Hist Med 78:894-895, 2004; Hickman T. Soc Hist Med 18:
131-132, 2005]
Reynolds LA, Tansey EM,
eds. Innovation in Pain Management. London: Wellcome Trust Centre for the
History of Medicine, 2004. 156pp. [Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century
Medicine, Vol. 21]
Schuttler J, ed. 50 Jahre
Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Anasthesiologie und Intensiv Medizin. Tradition and
Innovation. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2003. 584pp. [rev. Rupreht J. Hist
Anaesth Proc 32:64-65, 2003]
Snow S. The History of
Anaesthesia. Oxford University Press, 2005
*Stratmann L. Chloroform:
The Quest for Oblivion. Sutton Publishing, 2003. 256pp. [rev. Connor H. Hist
Anaesth Proc 32: 64, 2003]
Vinten-Johansen P, Brody
H, Paneth N, Rachman S, Rip M. Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of
Medicine: A Life of John Snow. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. 437pp.
[rev. Snow SJ. Hist Anaesth Proc 32: 66-67, 2003; Joy RJT. Bull Hist Med
78:896-897, 2004]
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
Ball C, Westhorpe R.
Local anaesthetics-the introduction of Xylocaine into clinical practice.
Anaesth Intens Care 32(6):733, December 2004 [illus., 4 refs.]
Bause GS. ASA's
Freudian prelude: from mesmerism to cocaine. ASA Newsletter 68(9): 22-23,
September 2004 [6 illus.]
Boulton TB. Henry Rex
Marrett MRCS, LRCP, FRCA, DA an appreciation. Hist Anaesth Soc Proc 32: 68-71,
2003 [6 refs.]
Bowden ME, Hicks RD.
Joseph Priestley, radical thinker. Chemical Heritage 22(3): 24-25, fall 2004
[3 illus.; describes Priestley exhibit at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in
Philadelphia]
Browner SP. Professional
medicine: democracy and the modern body: the discovery of etherization. In:
Browner SP. Profound Science and Elegant Literature: Imagining Doctors in
Nineteenth-Century America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,
2005, pp 15-38 [notes, bibliography, index]
Chestnut DH. Efficacy and
safety of epidural opioids for postoperative analgesia. Anesthesiology 102:
221-223, 2005 [11 refs.; Classic Papers Revisited series]
Dreyfuss M.
Anesthesiologist's heart transplant is a success story. Anesthesiology News
31(1): 22-23, January 2005 [profile of Edward Lowe, M.D.]
Ellison N. Reflections on
30 years as a defense expert witness. International Anesthesia Research
Society, 2005 Review Course Lectures, pp 23-30 [6 tables, 7 illus., 10 refs.]
Ganidagli S, Cengiz M,
Aksoy S, Verit A. Approach to painful disorders by Serefeddin Sabuncuoglu in
the fifteenth century Ottoman period. Anesthesiology 100: 165-169, 2004 [6
illus., 24 refs.]
Gisvold SE, Lindahl S.
Eric Nilsson in memoriam (1915-2004). Acta Anaesthesiol Scand 49: 270, 2005
Gordon N. History of
cluster headache. Curr Pain Headache Rpts 9:132-134, 2004 [23 refs.]
Grenvik A, Pinsky M. In
memoriam: Iqbal Mustafa, MD, PhD, FCCM. Curr Opin Crit Care 10: 433, 2004
Grogono AW. The Abt
report: what was it and what happened? ASA Newsletter 68(9): 20-21, September
2004 [1 illus.]
Haddad FS.
Pictorial history of anesthesia at the American University of Beirut.
Middle East J Anesthesiol 17(6): 987-1008, 2004 [37 PowerPoint slides, 20
refs.]
Hansen DD, Hickey PR.
History of anesthesia for congenital heart disease. In: Andropoulos DB,
ed. Anesthesia for Congenital Heart Disease. New York: Blackwell Futura, 2005,
pp 3-16 [2 illus., 54 refs.]
Hathaway W. The man who
defied pain; for some, treatment of Horace Wells, anesthesia pioneer, still
hits a nerve. Hartford Courant December 11, 2004 [Connecticut newspaper]
Haytock J. Marriage and
modernism in Edith Wharton's Twilight Sleep. Legacy 19(2): 216-229, 2002
[Notes; works cited listing. Wharton's 1927 novel uses "twilight
sleep," a morphine-scopolamine combination for labor pain relief popular
in the first half of the 20th century, as a metaphor]
Hicks RD. Joseph
Priestley Exhibit to opern. Chemical Heritage 22(2): 34, summer 2004 [illus.;
exhibt at Chemical Heritage Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]
Hines RL. Nicholars M.
Greene, M.D.: 1922-2004. ASA Newsletter 69(2): 35-36, February 2005 [portrait]
Jardine L. On a Grander
Scale: The Outstanding Life of Sir Christopher Wren. New York: HarperCollins,
2002. [Illus., notes, bibliography, index. Pp 88-89 and 122-128 describe
Wren’s 1650s experiments with blood transfusion]
Johnson K. British
political cartoonist in era of enlightenment. New York Times January 7, 2005 [Exibition
of prints by James Gillray at New York Public Library; one of his works
satirizes Davy's nitrous oxide demonstrations at the Royal Institution in
London]
Join the party and
celebrate ASA's 100th birthday. ASA Newsletter 69(1): 10-11, January 2005
Klobuchar CM. Pioneering
anesthesiologist continues to shape his field. Anesthesiology News 31(1): 25,
January 2005 [profile of J. Antonio Aldrete, M.D.]
Lake CL. History of
pediatric cardiac anesthesia. In: Lake CL, Booker PD, eds. Pediatric Cardiac
Anesthesia. 4th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005, pp
1-6 [table, 65 refs.]
Maia RJF, Fernandes CR.
Dawning of inhalatinal anesthesia: a historical perspective. Rev Bras
Anestesiol 52(6): 774-782, November-December 2002 [Portuguese]
Markel H. The accidental
addict. N Engl J Med 352(10): 966-968, March 10, 2005 [Illus., 4 refs.;
William S. Halsted]
Marlene Paulino dos Reis
20/08/1942-12/12/2003. Rev Bras Anestesiol 54(6): 877, November-December 2004
[Portuguese and English]
McGoldrick KE. A hero for
all seasons. Ambulatory Anesssthesia 119(4): 1, 5, October 2004 [portrait;
Leroy Vandam]
New Priestley exhibit
marks 200th anniversary of his death. Shamokin [Penn.] News-Item February 3,
2004 [describes exhibit at the Joseph Priestley House in Northumberland,
Pennsylvania]
Raj PP. Historical
aspects of regional anesthesia, ambulatory anesthesia, and continuous
outpatient infusions. In: Steele SM, Nielsen KC, Klein SM, eds. New York:
McGraw Hill, 2005, pp 9-34 [9 tables, 8 illus., 271 refs.]
Rudavsky S. Leroy Vandam,
90, pioneer in anesthesia. J Clin Anesth 16: 481-482, 2004
Sebastiao Marra Marques
10/11/1930-26/07/2004. Rev Bras Anestesiol 54(6): 878, November-December 2004
[Portuguese and English]
Smith T. The development
of the anaesthetic vaporiser. Bulletin of the Historical Medical Equipment
Society, London. no. 10: 3-4, August 2003
Spalding JMK. Artificial
respiration in Oxford in 1950s. Bulletin of the Historical Medical Equipment
Society, London. no. 10: 10-13, August 2003
Sternbach GL, Varon J.
The discovery and rediscovery of oxygen. J Emerg Med 28(2): 221-224, 2005 [13
refs.]
TahaJasser M. Anaesthesia
in the history of Arab and Islamic medicine. J Int Soc History Islamic Med
1(1): 21-24, April 2002
Tan PSK, Grenvik A,
Pinsky M. In memoriam: Iqbal Mustafa, MD, PhD, FCCM. Crit Care Med 33(2): 475,
2005 [illus.]
Tetzlaff JE,
Lautsenheiser F, Estafanous FG. Dr. George Crile-early contributions to the
theoretic basis for twenty-first century pain medicine. Reg Anesth Pain Med
29(6):600-605, November-December 2004 [3 illus., 15 refs.]
Ture H, Ture U, Gogus FY,
Valavanis A, Yasargil MG. The art of alleviating pain in Greek mythology.
Neurosurgery 56(1): 178-186, January 2005 [6 illus., 32 refs., comments]
Unzueta MC, Casas JI,
Merten A. Macintosh's laryngoscope. Anesthesiology 102: 242, 2005 [letter; 7
refs.]
Vale NB, Delfino J. Nine
Biblical anesthetic premises. Rev Bras Anestesiol 53(1): 127-136,
January-February 2003 [Portuguese]
Vandam LD. Concerning
neurologic sequelae of spinal anesthesia. Anesthesiology 100: 176-177, 2004
[13 refs.; Classic Papers Revisited series]
Vlessides M. Wine,
whiskey and laudanum...analgesics of choice for Lewis and Clark.
Anesthesiology News 31(3): 1, 36, March 2005
Wainwright M. The
talented Mr. Priestley is finally honoured at home. The Guardian February 9,
2004
Ward ME, Boulton TB.
Obituary: Stanley Arthur Mason. Anaesthesia 60:92-93, 2005 [portrait]
Welch RA. Spotlight
on...Lawrence S. Berman, M.D.--ever-vigilant, at work and at sea. ASA
Newsletter 69(1): 19-20, January 2005 [portrait]
Zauder HL. The Macintosh
laryngoscope blade. Anesthesiology 102: 241-242, 2005 [letter; 4 refs.]
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