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"   on the Anesthesia History Association WWW page at http://www.anes.uab.edu/anesthesia_history_association.htm  I urge readers to send me any citations, especially those not in English, that I may otherwise miss!

BOOKS

Bacon DR, McGoldrick KE, Lema MJ, eds. The American Society of Anesthesiologists: A Century of Challenges and Progress. Wood Library-Museum, 2005. 226pp. Illus. [rev. Ellison N Anesth Analg 102: 1300, 2006; Pierce EC Jr. JAMA 295: 2187-2188, May 10, 2006; Shephard D Can J Anesth 53: 741, 2006]

Bliss M. Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery. Oxford University Press, 2005. 591pp. [rev. Crowell RM JAMA 295: 1589-1590, April 5, 2006]

Dormandy T. The Worst of Evils: The Fight Against Pain. Yale University Press, 2006. 560pp.

Finger S. Doctor Franklin's Medicine. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 288pp. [includes Franklin's role investigating Franz Mesmer's animal magnetism; rev. Howell JD. NEJM 354: 2081-2082, May 11, 2006]

Hempel S. The Medical Detective. Granta Books, 2006. 304pp. [John Snow and cholera; rev. Vines G. The Independent (U.K.) June 16, 2006]

Hempel S. The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera. University of California Press, January 2007. 306pp. [Presumably the U.S. edition of The Medical Detective]

Johnson S. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Deadliest Epidemic--and How It Changed the Way We Think About Disease, Cities, Science and the Modern World. Riverhead/Penguin, 2006. 352pp. [John Snow and cholera]

Karch SB. A Brief History of Cocaine. 2nd ed. CRC Press, 2006. 188pp. [rev. Gold J, Gold MS. JAMA 295: 2665-2666, June 14, 2006]

Lai D. Pentathol Postcards. West New York, NJ: Mark Blatty, 2005. 190pp. [rev. Calicott R. Anesthesiology 105: 229, 2006]

Marsh R. The Beetle. J. Wolfreys, ed. Broadview Press, 2004. 364pp. [rep. of 1897 novel featuring mesmerism; Appendix D, "Mesmerism and Animal Magnetism", includes an excerpt from James Esdaile's 1852 classic on use of mesmerism in surgery]

Merskey H, Loeser JD, Dubner R, eds. The Paths of Pain 1975-2005. IASP Press, 2005. 549pp. [numerous essays, many with historical elements]

Waterfield R. Hidden Depths: The Story of Hypnosis. Routledge, 2003. 464pp.

Yentis SM. The View from the Head End. TFM Publishing, 2005. 128pp. [Humorous drawing by the British anaesthetist; rev. Ereth MH. Anesthesiology 105: 229, 2006]

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

Arnaoult L, Shaffi A, Jacqmin, Tsatsaris V, Cabrol, Mignon A, Ozier Y. Trends in intra-partum blood transfusion at Paris Port-Royal maternity 1995-2003. Anesthesiology 2004; 100, suppl 1: 50 [SOAP abstract]

Aydede M, ed. Pain: New Essays on Its Nature and the Methodology of Its Study. MIT Press, 2006. 420pp. [includes the editor's introductory chapter, "A Critical and Quasi-Historical Essay on Theories of Pain" pp 1-58]

Bacon DR. Ansel Marion Caine, M.D.: a timeless lesson in professionalism? Anesthesiology. 2006 Jun;104(6):1122-3 [editorial; 2 refs.]

Bacon DR. Seeing an anesthetic revolution: ocular anesthesia in history. Ophthalmol Clin North Am. 2006 Jun;19(2):151-4 [1 illus., 20 refs.]

Bacon DR. A debt [to the AMA] that cannot be repaid. ASA Newsletter 2004 April; 68(4): 1-2 [10 refs.]

Ball C, Westhorpe RN. Muscle relaxants--atracurium and other recent developments. Anaesth Intensive Care. 2006 Jun;34(3):295 [Cover Note]

Ball C, Westhorpe RN. Muscle relaxants--pancuronium and vecuronium. Anaesth Intensive Care. 2006 Apr;34(2):137 [Cover Note; 1 illus.; 5 refs.]

Boulton TB. The Golden Jubilee of the Society of Anaesthetists of Hong Kong. Anaesthesia. 2006 Apr;61(4):402 [letter; 2 refs.]

Broussard DM, Winthrop B, Vachon CA. Ansel Marion Caine, M.D. Anesthesiology. 2006 Jun;104(6):1329-35 [8 illus., 1 table, 26 refs.]

Brummett CM, Wagner DS. The use of alpha-2 agonists in peripheral nerve blocks: a review of the history of clinidine and a look at a possible future for dexmedetomidine. Sem Anesth Periop Med Pain 2006; 25: 84-92 [1 table, 34 refs.]

Connor H. Military anaesthesia, 1846-1856. Anaesthesia. 2006 Mar;61(3):296-7; author reply (by NH Metcalfe) 297 [letters; 12 refs.]

Drife J. Fifty years of the confidential enquiry into maternal deaths. Br J Hosp Med (Lond). 2006 Mar;67(3):121-5 [2 illus., 3 tables, 21 items in bibliography]

Dunser MW, Baelani I, Ganbold L. A review and analysis of intensive care medicine in the least developed countries. Crit Care Med. 2006 Apr;34(4):1234-42 [1 illus., 5 tables, 112 refs.]

Ekbom T, Ekbom K. Diaries and letters indicate that Franz Kafka suffered from Horton headache. Lakartidningen. 2003 Apr 24;100(17):1540-1 [Swedish]

Franco Grande A. Anaesthesia in Spain, 1847 to 1900. European Society of Anaesthesiology Newsletter 2005 autumn; 24: 12-13 [1 illus., 6 refs.]

Franco Grande A. Anaesthesia in Spain II: 1900 to 1950.  European Society of Anaesthesiology Newsletter 2006 winter; 25: 22[2 illus., 8 refs.]

Gardner-Thorpe C, Pearn J. Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802): neurologist. Neurology. 2006 Jun 27;66(12):1913-6 [1 illus., 33 refs.]

George S. Henry Beecher: putting the patient first. Anesthesiology News 2006 March; 32(3): 62

George S. Alberto Gutierrez: the surgeon and the anesthesiologist. Anesthesiology News 2006 March; 32(3): 49

Goerig M, Streckfuss W. [Adam hammer (1818 - 1878) - remarks on a forgotten pioneer of ether anaesthesia in obstetrics] Anasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther. 2004 May;39(5):265-75  [German]

Hammonds WD. Anesthesia History Association's 11th Annual Resident Essay Contest. ASA Newsletter 2006 February; 70(2): 21

Hessel EA II. Evolution of cardiac anesthesia and surgery. In: In: Kaplan JA, ed. Kaplan's Cardiac Anesthesia. 5th ed. Elsevier Saunders, 2006, pp 3-32 [16 illus., 6 tables, 227 refs.

Horst-Stoeckel-Museum fur die Geschichte der Anasthesiologie in Bonn. Anasthesiol Intensivmed 2002; 43: 733 [German]

"John Snow, Father of Epidemiology", Talk of the Nation September 24, 2004 [National Public Radio; audio and transcript available at npr.org; interviewed three co-authors of the book Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine: A Life of John Snow]

Johnstone RE 2nd. Obstetric anesthesia: the 1982 American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists standards and the role of Robert E. Johnstone, M.D. Anesthesiology. 2006 May;104(5):1103-4; author reply [by BA Bucklin, JL Hawkins] 1104-5 [letters; 12 refs.]

Macdonald A, Zuck D. The Robinson-Hooper connection. Anaesthesia. 2006 Jun;61(6):553-6 [1 illus., 13 refs.]

Martin DP, Burkle CM, McGlinch BP, Warner ME, Sessler AD, Bacon DR. The Mayo Clinic World War II Short Course and Its Effect on Anesthesiology. Anesthesiology. 2006 Jul;105(1):209-213 [1 illus., 2 tables, 7 refs.]

Morris LE. Copper kettle revisited. 1952. Anesthesiology. 2006 Apr;104(4):881-4 [Classic Papers Revisited series; 2 illus., 7 refs.]

Moyers JR. Anesthesia Foundation: aiding anesthesiology residents since 1956. ASA Newsletter 2005 December; 69(12): 28-29

Okafor UV. Evolution of obstetric anaesthesia in West Africa: current trends. Int J Obstet Anesth. 2006 Apr;15(2):176-7 [letter; 6 refs.]

Olsen Y, Daumit GL, Ford DE. Opioid prescriptions by U.S. primary care physicians from 1992 to 2001. J Pain. 2006 Apr;7(4):225-35 [2 illus., 1 table, 94 refs.]

Ortega RA. The ultimate restoration of the Ether Monument. ASA Newsletter 2006 June; 70(6): 22-23 [1 illus., 4 refs.]

Paez AG, Sudrez BH. The first anesthesia spinal: James L. Corning or August K. Bier? Rev Cuba Anestesiol Reanim 2(2): 34-39, 2003 [Spanish; 2 illus., 25 refs.]

Pennefather SH, Gilby S, Danecki A, Russell GN. The changing practice of thoracic epidural analgesia in the United Kingdom: 1997-2004. Anaesthesia. 2006 Apr;61(4):363-9 [5 illus., 23 refs., appendix]

Ross VH. The National Medical Association--Anesthesiology Section. ASA Newsletter 2006 March; 70(3): 39, 41

Salzberg SP, Filsoufi F, Adams DH. Milestones in cardiac surgery. In: Kaplan JA, ed. Kaplan's Cardiac Anesthesia. 5th ed. Elsevier Saunders, 2006, pp 33-41 [9 tables, 89 refs.]

Schuttler J. DGAI-Kalender 2003: "Tradition & Innovation" zum 50jahrigen Jubilaum unserer Fachgesellschaff. Anasthesiol Intensivmed 2002; 43: 731-733 [German; 4 illus.]

Slogoff S, Keats AS. Myocardial Ischemia Revisited. Anesthesiology. 2006 Jul;105(1):214-216 [Classic Papers Revisted series; 13 refs.]

Spiess BD, spence RK. A history of transfusion. In: Spiess BD et al, eds. Perioperative Transfusion Medicine. 2nd ed. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2006, pp 3-11 [10 illus., 32 refs.]

Zeitlin GL. Deterioration of the inscription on Morton's monument. ASA Newsletter 2006 June; 70(6): 21, 23 [3 illus., 3 refs.]