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; I interpret those categories very broadly. Some will concern individuals important in the history of the specialty [i.e., Harvey Cushing or William Halsted] who also achieved in other areas or widely-used equipment such as the stethoscope. 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

 

Bell MS. Lavoisier in the Year One: The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution. New York: Atlas Books/Norton, 2005. 256pp.

 

Brown K. Catalyst. Melbourne: Brolga Publishing, 2004. 354pp. [Dr. Kester Brown is a pediatric anesthesiologist and President of the WFSA for 2000-2004; rev. Cass N. Anaesth Intens Care 33: 282, 2005]

 

Feldman S. Poison Arrows. London: John Black Publishing, 2004. [novel; rev. Hunter JM. Br J Anaesth 94: 869, 2005]

 

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. Erlen J. JAMA 293: 1671-1672, 2005]

 

Gullo A, Rupreht J. World Federation Societies of Anesthesiologists--50 Years. Springer, 2004. 322pp. [rev. Howat D. Hist Anaesth Soc Proc 34: 102-104, July 2004]

 

Ortega R. Leroy D. Vandam, MD: An Anesthesia Journey. Boston: Anesthesia Associates of Massachusetts, 2004 [DVD; rev. Doyle DJ. Can J Anesth 52: 554, 2005]

 

Stanley P. For Fear of Pain: British Surgery 1790-1850. New York: Rodolpi, 2003 Clio Medica 70, Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine [rev. Zuck D. Hist Anaesth Soc Proc 34: 100-102, July 2004. Also reviews Scream-The History of Anaesthetics, a television documentary first broadcast in 2004 and Kaplan J. The Dressing Station--a Surgeon's Odyssey. London: Picador, 2001]

 

Wilson G. One Grand Chain: The History of Anaesthesia in Australia 1846-1962. Volume 1, 1846-1934. Book of References. Melbourne: Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists, 2004. 48pp. [rev. Jones JT. Anaesth Intens Care 33: 147, 2005]

 

Wilson G, Kaye G, Phillips G, Baker B. One Grand Chain: The History of Anaesthesia in Australia 1846-1962. Volume 2. Melbourne: Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists, 2004. 657pp. [rev. Bailey R. Anaesth Intens Care 33: 147, 2005]

 

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

 

Agnew R. The prelude to stethoscopy: some French, British and Irish contributions in the early nineteenth century. J Med Biog 11: 135-141, 2003 [4 illus., 41 refs.]

 

Altman K. Heritage Hour talk highlights Priesley's apparatus. Chem Heritage 23(1): 16, spring 2005 [2 illus.]

 

Anderson R. Joseph Priestley public intellectual. Chem Heritage 23(1): 6-9, 36-38, spring 2005 [12 illus., 3 refs.]

 

Bacon DR. In the beginning: three stars? ASA Newsletter 68(9): 7-8, September 2004 [ASA seal; 2 illus., 6 refs.]

 

Bacon DR. When the time comes [for retirement]. ASA Newsletter 69(5): 1-2, May 2005

 

Ball C, Westhorpe R. Local anaesthesia--after xylocaine. Anaesth Intens Care 33: 3, 2005 [Cover Note series; illus., 3 refs.]

 

Ball C, Westhorpe R. Muscle relaxants--the early history. Anaesth Intens Care 33: 155, 2005 [Cover Note series; illus., 5 refs.]

 

Bodman R. Story of cyclopropane at Hillingdon Hospital. Hist Anaesth Soc Proc 32: 53-56, 2003

 

Boettcher W, Merkle F, Weitkemper HH. History of extracorporeal circulation: the conceptional and developmental period. J Extra Corpor  Technol 35: 172-183, 2003

 

Boettcher W, Merkle F, Weitkemper HH. History of extracorporeal circulation: the invention and modification of blood pumps.  J Extra Corpor  Technol 35: 184-191, 2003 [5 illus., 76 refs.]

 

Borman S. Joseph Priestley remembered. Chem Eng News 82(38): 41-45, September 2004

 

Bradley J. Tour takes a healthy look at city's medical history. Scotsman.com April 19, 2005 http://heritage.scotsman.com/ [Edinburgh; includes achievements of James Syme, James Simpson, Alexander Wood, Robert Lister]

 

Brimacombe JR. History. In: Brimacombe JR. Laryngeal Mask Anesthesia: Principles and Practice. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Saunders, 2005, pp 1-40 [50 illus., 3 tables, 358 refs.]

 

Byer D. Anaesthetic administration by a juvenile; stories from a medical family. Hist Anaesth Soc Proc 32: 51-52, 2003 [abstract]

 

Chesnut DH. University of Alabama at Birmingham establishes Maurice S. Albin, M.D., Endowed Professorship. ASA Newsletter 69(6): 19, 21, June 2005 [includes history of department's seven endowed faculty positions; 1 illus.]

 

Cohen-Gadol AA, Spencer DD. Harvey W. Cushing and cerebrovascular surgery: Part 1, aneurysms. J Neurosurg 101: 547-552, 2004 [4 illus., 14 refs.]

 

Cohen-Gadol AA, Spencer DD. Harvey W. Cushing and cerebrovascular surgery: Part II, vascular malformations. J Neurosurg 101: 553-559, 2004 [4 illus., 8 refs.]

 

Connor H. Early history of anaesthesia in Hereford. Hist Anaesth Soc Proc 32: 7-10, 2003

 

Eidemiller MG. After the ether. Pittsburgh Tribune-Review April 25, 2005 http://pittsburghlive.com/ [profile of Viola Bitonti, nurse anesthetist whose 50-year career began with open-drop ether]

 

Enever G. The professor needs a dummy--the story of Seaworthy Sierra Sam. Hist Anaesth Soc Proc 32: 50, 2003 [abstract]

 

Finster M, Wood M. The Apgar score has survived the test of time. Anesthesiology 102: 855-857, 2005 [Classic Papers Revisited series; 1 table, 15 refs.]

 

Flanagan R, Watson K. Chloroform--murder or suicide? Hist Anaesth Soc Proc 32: 40-49, 2003

 

Giesecke AH. Oliver F. Bush, M.D. (1919-2005): ASA President, 1964. ASA Newsletter 69(6): 33-34, June 2005 [1 illus., 3 refs.]

 

Hendricks PL. Way to go, ASA! ASA enters its second 100 years of professional commitment to anesthesia care and patient safety with a new all-time membership record. ASA Newsletter 69(5): 16-17, May 2005 [timeline]

 

Hess JR, Thomas MJG. Blood use in war and disaster: lessons from the past century. Transfusion 43: 1622-1633, 2003 [5 illus., 38 refs.]

 

History of anaesthetics--surgical developments. Express Newsline/Health Care Guide February 27, 2005 http://www.expressnewsline.com/

 

Howard S. Imagining the pain and peril of seventeenth-century childbirth: travail and deliverance in the making of an early modern world. Soc Hist Med 16: 367--382, 2003

 

Huberdeau H. Murder by chloroform, rope. Bennington Banner May 26, 2005 http://www.benningtonbanner.com [August 1902 Vermont murder in which Mary Mabel Bennett Rogers use chloroform to kill her husband; illus.]

 

Jasser MT. Unknown contribution of Arab and Islamic scholars in the field of anesthesia in the West. Middle East J Anesthesiol 18: 21-31, 2005 [8 illus., 23 refs.]

 

Jones M. History of carbon dioxide in anaesthesia. Hist Anaesth Soc Proc 32: 57-62, 2003

 

Kalantzis G, Trompoukis, Tsiamis C, Lascaratos J. Hist Anaesth Soc Proc 32: 27-31, 2003

 

Kehlet H, Nielsen MB. Anaesthetic practice for groin hernia repair--a nation-wide study in Denmark 1998-2003. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand 49: 143-146, 2005 [3 illus., 22 refs.]

 

Kluger M, Hibbert P. Deaths reported to the Australian incident monitoring study (1988-2003). Anaesth Intens Care 33: 135, 2005 [abstract]

 

Koeppler N. The aspirin story. Scalpel Tongs 47(1): 9-11, October-December 2003

 

Lett Z. Anaesthesia (and intensive care) in Hong Kong. Hist Anaesth Soc Proc 32: 15-19, 2003

 

Liu CY, Apuzzo MLJ. The genesis of neurosurgery and the evolution of the neurosurgical operative environment: part 1--prehistory to 2003. Neurosurgery 52: 3-19, 2003 [18 illus., 123 refs.]

 

Maleck WH, Piper SN, Koetter K. Joseph Priestley, nitrous oxide and oxygen. Anaesthesist 54: 395-396, 2005 [German; correspondence; response to Anaesthesist 54: 795-812, 2004]

 

McClure J, Cooper G. Fifty years of confidential enquiries into maternal deaths in the United Kingdom: should anaesthesia celebrate or not? Int J Obstet Anesth 14: 87-89, 2005 [editorial; 7 refs.]

 

Metcalfe NH. The influence of the military on civilian uncertainty about modern anaesthesia between its origins in 1846 and the end of the Crimean War in 1856. Anaesthesia 60: 594-601, 2005 [2 illus., 1 table, 39 refs.]

 

Modell JH. Assessing the past and shaping the future of anesthesiology. The 43rd Rovenstine lecture. Anesthesiology 102: 1050-1057, 2005 [19 refs.]

 

Morrison LMM, Wildsmith JAW, Ostheimer GW. History of pain relief in childbirth. In: Van Zundert A, Ostheimer GW, eds. Pain Relief and Anesthesia in Obstetrics. New York: Churchill Livingstone, 1996, pp 3-16 [30 refs.]

 

Neal JM, Kopacz DJ, Liguori GA, Beckman JD, Hargett MJ. The training and careers of regional anesthesia fellows--1983-2002 [4 illus., 6 tables, 10 refs.]

 

Poll J. French catheter size: our urological heritage. Hist Anaesth Soc Proc 32: 11-14, 2003

 

Scott M. 1979 adventures in antitrust: some justice here, some FTC there. ASA Newsletter 68(9): 18-19, September 2004 [illus.]

 

Sessler AD.  The 4 foundations: jewels in the ASA crown. ASA Newsletter 68(9): 9-11, September 2004 [4 illus., 9 refs.]

 

Shann FA, Duncan AW. Prolonged per-laryngeal endotracheal intubation in children: 40 years on. Anaesth Intens Care 31: 663-666, 2003 [2 refs.]

 

Shephard DAE. The changing pattern of anesthesia, 1954-2004: a review based on the content of the Canadian Journal of Anesthesia in its first half-century. Can J Anesth 52: 238-248, 2005 [illus., table, 126pp.]

 

Spielman FJ. The Civil War: anesthesia comes of age. J Civil War Med 5(2): 9-12, April-May-June 2001 [illus., refs.]

 

Thomas PK. The anatomical substratum of pain: evidence derived from morphometric studies on peripheral nerve. Can J Neurol Sci 31: 398-403, 2004 [2 illus., numerous refs.; reprint of Can J Neurol Scie 2: 92-97, 1974]

 

Trubuhovich RV. Further commentary on Denmark's 1952-53 poliomyelitis epidemic, especially regarding mortality; with a correction. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand 48: 1310-1315, 2004 [5 tables, 13 refs.]

 

2004 Wood Library-Museum Laureate Historian of Anesthesia [Donald Caton, MD]. Surv Anesthesiol 48: 114, 2004

 

Walmsley D, Zuck D. Startin's pneumatic inhaler. Hist Anaesth Soc Proc 32: 20-26, 2003

 

Warner O. Rapid sequence induction: history and evolution. Hist Anaesth Soc Proc 32: 32-39, 2003

 

Weiss MF. Exclusive anesthesia contracts: history, theory, nuts and bolts. Sem Anesth Periop Med Pain 24: 71-76, 2005