FROM THE LITERATURE

A.J. Wright, MLS

Department of Anesthesiology Library

School of Medicine

University of Alabama at Birmingham

*Ball C, Westhorpe R. The EMO vaporizer. Anaesth Intens Care 26:347, 1998 [1 illus., 3 refs.]

*Baszanger I. Inventing Pain Medicine: From the Laboratory to the Clinic. Rutgers University Press, 1998

*Bednarska-Zytko I. August Karl Bier--one hundred years of cocaine use in spinal anesthesia. Pol Merkuriusz Lek 3:303-305, 1997 [Polish]

*Bergman NA. The Genesis of Surgical Anesthesia. Park Ridge, Illinois: Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology, 1998 [reviewed by Bailey R, Anaesth Intens Care 26:467-468, 1998]

*Booth M. Opium: A History. St. Martin's Press, 1998

*Brain AIJ. Historical aspects and future directions [of the laryngeal mask airway]. Int Anesthesiol Clin 36(2):1-18, 1998 [15 illus., 35 refs.]

*Bud R, Warner DJ, eds. Instruments of Science: An Historical Encyclopedia. Garland, 1998 [includes medical]

*Camann WR. Zuspan crisis?--a clarification. ASA Newsletter 62(7):34, July 1998 [letter; response to OB epidural history article by Clark RB in March 1998 issue]

*Clark RB. OB epidural history reprised. ASA Newsletter 62(7): 34-35, July 1998 [letter]

*Cottineau C, Cocaud J, Jacob JP. The beginnings of anesthesia. Allerg Immunol (Paris). 30(5):135-137, 1998 [French]

*Edmonson JM. American Surgical Instruments: An Illustrated History of Their Manufacture and a Directory of Instrument Makers to 1900. San Francisco: Norman Publishing, 1997

*Fujita T. Sir Humphry Davy, the discoverer of anesthetic action of nitrous oxide--Davy and poets of British Romanticism and inhalation of laughing gas by his friends. Masui: Jpn J Anesthesiol 47:102-106, 1998 [Japanese; 3 portraits, 13 refs.]

*Dick W. Hermann Kreuscher and Hans Nolte. Anasthesiol Intensivmed 39:276-277, 1998 [German; obituaries]

*Duffin, Jacalyn. To See With a Better Eye: A Life of R.T.H. Laennec. Princeton University Press, 1998 [reviewed in NEJM 339:353-354, 1998]

*Ebner H. An historical eulogy for spinal lidocaine? J Clin Monit Comput 14:211, 1998 [5 refs.]

*Fink BR. Nothing good ever comes from death. ASA Newsletter 62(7):35, July 1998 [letter; note on achievements of Dr. John J. Bonica]

*Gillardeau G. Michel Sabathie (1929-1998). Ann Fran Anesth Reanim 17:358, 1998 [French; obituary]

*Greenwalt TJ. The birth of Transfusion. Transfusion 37:1206-1208, 1997

*Gustafsson LL, Schildt B, jacobsen K. Adverse effects of extradural and intrathecal opiates: report of a nationwide survey in Sweden. Br J Anaesth 81: 85-93, 1998 [Entry in the Citation Classic series; first published 1982. Commentary by JAW Wildsmith]

*Hanson-Matouskova AL. Development of epidural analgesia in obstetrics, a decreased number of complications and adverse effects in the mother and child. Ceska Gynekol 62 suppl: 5-8, 1997 [Czech]

*Hedner T, Everts B. The early clinical history of salicylates in rheumatology and pain. Clin Rhematol 17:17-25, 1998 [29 refs., 8 illus.]

*Incze F. Advances in anesthesiology in the 90's. Orv Hetil 139:1003-1010, 1998 [Hungarian]

*Jurczyk W, Szulc R. In memoriam: Professor Marek Sych. Eur J Anaesth 15:512-513, 1998 [obituary]

*Kerr NW. Dental pain and suffering prior to the advent of modern dentistry. Br Dent J 184:397-399, 1998 [3 illus.; 20 refs.]

*Kirkup J. The history and evolution of surgical instruments. VIII. Catheters, hollow needles and other tubular instruments. Ann R Coll Surg Engl 80:81-90, 1998 [2 tables, 8 illus., 76 refs.]

*Landauer B. Heribert Weigand--70th birthday. Anasthesiol Intensivmed 39:335, 1998 [German; biographical note]

*Landauer B. Eberhard Gotz--60th birthday. Anasthesiol 39:336, 1998 [German; biographical note]

*Lear E. History of epidural usage in obstetrics--final chapter. ASA Newsletter 62(7):35, July 1998 [letter; notes use of epidurals during mid-1950s at Brooklyn's Jewish Hospital under anesthesia chair Irving M. Pallin, M.D.]

*Lyons SM. Anaesthesia and the broken hearted. 170th annual oration: Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, 2nd October 1997. Ulster Med J 67:49-58, 1998

*Maggioni F, Occhipinti C, Zanchin G. Headches in Domestic Medicine by William Buchan. Ital J Neurol Sci 19:109-115, 1998

*McGoldrick KE. Lewis H. Wright Memorial Lecture: Steven M. Zeitels, M.D., to present "The Origin and Development of Laryngoscopy and Laryngology." ASA Newsletter 62(7):8-9, July 1998 [1 portrait]

*Menzel H. Jochen Bark. Anasthesiol Intensivmed 39:332-334, 1998 [German; biographical note]

*Moreno Gonzalez A. Indications for aspirin on the centennial of its discovery. An R Acad Nac Med (Madrid) 114:765-770, 1997 [Spanish]

*Naqvi NH. Who was the first to monitor blood pressure during anaesthesia? Eur J Anaesth 15:255-259, 1998 [1 illus.; 2 portraits; 15 refs.]

*Parizek A. Development of obstetrical analgesia and anesthesia in the Czech Republic. Ceska Gynekol 62 suppl: 3-5, 1997 [Czech]

*Pasqualini RQ. A century and a half of the first surgical anesthesia. Medicina (Buenos Aires) 57:254-255, 1997 [Spanish; letter]

*Rose W. Anesthesiologic retrospective view of the surgeon Hans Kehr. Zentralbl Chir 123 suppl 2:13-18, 1998 [German]

*Russo E. Cannabis for migraine treatment: the once and future prescription? An historical and scientific review. Pain 76:3-8, 1998 [numerous references]

*Rutkow IM. American Surgery: An Illustrated History. Lippincott-Raven, 1998. [Includes chapter "Surgical Anesthesia, 1846-1860"; reviewed in JAMA 279:1493-1494, 1998]

*Schirmer U. Laughing gas--development and present status. Anaesthesist 47:245-255, 1998 [4 tables, 2 figures; 6 refs.; German]

*Shephard DA. The value of biography for medical history. Bull Can Hist Med 13:186-188, 1996 [Shephard is biographer of John Snow]

*Sheplock GJ. ...the Wood Library-Museum: take a virtual tour. ASA Newsletter 62(5):26, May 1998

*Sleth JC. The Bonian anaesthetic mixture: a forgotten ancestor of EMLA cream?

Ann Fran Anesth Reanim 17:348-349, 1998 [French]

*Starr, Douglas. Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce. Knopf, 1998

*Surgical and Dental Instrument Catalogues from the Civil War Era. San Francisco: Norman Publishing, 1997 [reprint of catalogs of two companies, Snowden and Brother and John Weiss and Son]

*Teague BT, Levin WC. The explosion that produced the American Association of Blood Banks. Transfusion 37:1209-1210, 1997

*Vandam LD. On the origins of intrathecal anesthesia. Reg Anesth Pain Med 23:335-339, 1998 [4 illus., 15 refs]

*Weil MH. The assualt on the Swan-Ganz catheter: A case history of constrained technology, constrained beside clinicians, and constrained monetary expenditures. Chest 113:1379-1386, 1998

*West JB. High-Life: A History of High-Altitude Physiology and Medicine. Oxford University Press, 1998

*West JB. Repiratory Physiology: People and Ideas. Oxford University Press, 1996. [reviewed in JAMA 278:1200, 1997]

*Winckler C. Charles Rouet (1923-1996). Ann Fr Anesth Reanim 15(8):1151, 1996 [French; obituary]

*Wulf HFW. The centennial of spinal anesthesia. Anesthesiology 89:500-506, 1998 [2 illus., 1 portrait, 26 refs., reprint of Bier's article]

*Wynbrandt J. The Excruciating History of Dentistry: Toothsome Tales and Oral Oddities from Babylon to Braces. St. Martin's, 1998 [includes discussion of different anesthetics]

*Zaitsev EI. 150 years of the use of ether anesthesia in Russia. Vestn Khir Im I I Grek 157:66-67, 1998