FROM THE LITERATURE

A.J. Wright, MLS
Department of Anesthesiology Library
School of Medicine
University of Alabama at Birmingham

[This listing will appear in a future issue of the Bulletin of Anesthesia History.]

*Altman LK. Who Goes First? The Story of Self-Experimentation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998 [rep. 1986 ed. with new preface; incl. chapters on local and general anesthesia]

*Bergman NA. The Genesis of Surgical Anesthesia. Park Ridge, Ill.: Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology, 1998 [rev. Shephard D, Can J Anaesth 45:1225-1226, 1998]

*Booth M. Opium: A History. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. [rev. Mendelson JH, JAMA 281:670-671, 1999

*Caton D. What a Blessing She Had Chloroform: The Medical and Social Response to the Pain of Childbirth from 1800 to the Present. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999

*Feeley TW, ed. Back in Time with the International Anesthesiology Clinics--Selected Articles from 1962-1970. Int Anesthesiol Clin 36(4): 1-165, fall 1998

*Feeley TW, ed. A History of Critical Care and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy as Documented in the International Anesthesiology Clinics. Int Anesthesiol Clin 37(1):1-174, winter 1999

*Freiesleben E. Blodtransfusionens historie i Danmark, 1848-1987. DSKI, 1995 [Danish]

*Greenblatt SH. History of Neurosurgery: In Its Scientific and Professional Contexts. Park Ridge, Ill.: American Association of Neurological Surgeons, 1997 [includes chapt. on neuroanesthesia]

*Hurt R. The History of Cardiothoracic Surgery from Early Times. New York: Parthenon, 1996. [includes chapts. on blood transfusion, resuscitation, and thoracic anesthesia]

*Hutchinson BR, Gibbs JM, Newson AJ. Safety Through Knowledge: A Fifty-Year History of the New Zealand Society of Anaesthetists. Christchurch, New Zealand: New Zealand Society of Anaesthetists, 1998

*Jenkins P. Synthetic Panics: The Symbolic Politics of Designer Drugs. New York University Press, July 1999 [incl. material on ketamine abuse]

*Lange JJ de, ed. Maar het kan nog beter: vijftig jaar, Nederlandse Vereniging voor Anesthesiologie, 1948-1988. Maarssen: Elsevier/Bunge, 1998

*Livingston WK. Pain and Suffering. Seattle: IASP Press, 1998 [combination of history and autobiography]

*Lodwick KL. Crusaders Against Opium: Protestant Missionaries in China, 1874-1917. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1996

*Rawstron RE. History of Anaesthetic Services in the Palmerston North Hospital. n.p., c1996

*Rupreht J, Van Lieburg MJ, Lee JA, Erdmann W. Anaesthesia: Essays on its History. Rotterdam: Springer-Verlag, 1998. [rep. 1987 ed] [reviewd by Ball C, Anaesth Intens Care 26:712, 1998; Adams AK, Br J Anaesth 81:997-998, 1998]

*Winter A. Mesmerized: Power of Mind in Victorian Britain. University of Chicago Press, 1998

*Adams AK. Obituary: Dr. Vernon Frederick Hall. Anaesthesia 53:1238-1239, 1998 [portrait]

*Aldrete JA. Contribuciones originales de latinoamericanos a la anestesiologia. Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim 45:340-348, 1998 [10 illus., 66 refs.]

*Allen TH, Steven IM. Prolonged endotracheal intubation in infants and children. Br J Anaesth 81:473-481, 1998 [classic 1965 article reprint with discussion]

*Appelgren LK. Centenary of spinal anesthesia. The men and the needles in its history. Lakartidningen 95:5905-5909, 1998 [Swedish]

*Bains J. From reviving the living to raising the dead; the making of cardiac resuscitation. Soc Sci Med 47:1341-1349, 1998 [numerous refs.]

*Ball C, Westhorpe R. The Small inhaler. Anaesth Intens Care 26:479, 1998 [illus., 3 refs. ; cover note]

*Ball C, Westhorpe R. The Tecota inhaler. Anaesth Intens Care 26:617, 1998 [illlus., 6 refs.; cover note]

*Ball C, Westhorpe R. Gwathmey's water sight-feed. Anaesth Intens Care 27:3, 1999 [illus., 7 refs.; cover note]

*Bollet AJ. The use of anesthesia during the Civil War. Resident Staff Physician 45(1):59-60, 63, 67, 1999 [14 refs.]

*Bouchet H. Les debuts de l'anesthesie. Ann Chir 52:935-939, 1998 [French]

*Cooper MG. A woman of history. Anaesth Intensive Care 27:110-111, 1999 [obituary of Gwenifer Wilson, 1916-1998] [portrait]

*Cooper M, O'Leary JP. The use of surgical gloves in the operating room. Am Surg 65: 90-91, 1999 [9 refs.]

*Cousin MT. The 150th anniversary of chloroform. An anesthetic agent "yet more marvellous and terrible" than ether. Ann Fr Anesth Reanim 16:1037-1044, 1997

*Dobson D. Dr. John W.R. McIntyre 1925-1998. Can J Anaesth 45:818-820, 1998 [obituary; English and French]

*Fink BR. ...Careers in anesthesiology. ASA Newsletter 63(1):28, January 1999 [describes WLM series of autobiographies]

*Galanakis E. Apgar score and Soranus of Ephesus. Lancet 352:2012-2013, 1998 [2 portraits, 1 table, 14 refs.]

*Goerig M. Carl Ludwig Schleich and the introduction of infiltration anesthesia into clinical practice. Reg Anesth Pain Med 23:538-539, 1998 [portrait; 9 refs]

*Gordh T Sr. How anaesthesiology came to Sweden. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand suppl 113: 34-38, 1998 [1 illus., 9 refs.]

*Greene NM. Laureate of the history of anesthesia program. ASA Newsletter 63(2):24, February 1999

*Hammerschmidt DE. The first commercial bottle of aspirin: March 6, 1899. J Lab Clin Med 132:556, 1998

*Holmdahl MH. Xylocain (lidocaine, lignocaine), its discovery and Gordh's contribution to its clinical use. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand suppl 113: 8-12, 1998 [1 illus., 43 refs.]

*Johnstone RE, Sinz EH. Resident research award winners have academically productive careers. ASA Newsletter 63(2):30-31, 33, February 1999 [1 ref., 3 tables]

*Kandela P. Sketches from The Lancet: pain-free surgery. Lancet 352:1159, 1998 [3 illus.]

*Kinyon GE. Anesthesia in San Diego. California Society of Anesthesiologists Bulletin 47(5): 57-60, September-October 1998

*Kotter KP, Maleck WH. Reconstruction of ancient Egyptian intubation devices. Anaesthesist 47:993-994, 1998 [correspondence]

*Kotter KP, Maleck WH, Altmannsberger S, Herchet J, Petroianu GA. Bellows or bag? Testing 10 ventilators and some medical history comments. Anaesthesiol Reanim 23(4):104-109, 1998 [French]

*Lawin P. The historical development of intensive care medicine in Germany. Considerations today--series 1: first (general) development tendencies. Anaesthesist 47:983-992, 1998

*Lawin P, Opderbecke HW, Schuster HP. The historical development of intensive care medicine in Germany--contemporary observations. Anaesthesist 47:92, 1998 [editorial]

*Lindahl S. A salute for Torsten Gordh, 90. Acta Anaesth Scand suppl 113: 1, 1998 [portrait]

*Lyons SM. The advance(s) of cardiac surgery and anaessthesia. Ulster Med J 67, suppl 1:15-17, June 1998

*Mallon WJ. E. Amory Codman, surgeon of the 1990s. J Shoulder Elbow Surg 7:529-536, 1998 [1 portrait, 2 illus., 69 refs., Codman bibliography] [Codman and Harvey Cushing developed the first anesthesia record in 1894]

*Mathias J. Obituary: Dr. William Derek Wylie. Anaesthesia 54:102-103, 1999 [portrait]

*McAuley JE. The hypodermic syringe. Dent Historian 32:40-41, May 1997

*Milic D, Marenovic T, Kovacevic J. Anesthesia in Serbia at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. Vojnosanit Pregl 55(4):439-444, July-August 1998 [Serbian]

*Ocklitz A. Reconstruction of ancient Egyptian intubation devices--reply. Anaesthesist 47:995-997, 1998

*Sandberg WS. Legends and tall tales: the role of oral history in anesthesia education. Surv Anesthesiol 42: 178-185, 1998

*Severinghaus JW. Intrathecally, Caine may dis-Able: reflections on lidocaine for spinal anesthesia. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand suppl 113: 3-7, 1998 [33 refs.]

*Shapiro HM, Galindo A, Wyte SR, Harris AB. Rapid intraoperative reduction of intracranial pressure with thiopentone. Br J Anaesth 81:798-803, 1998 [citation classic; first published BJA 45:1057, 1973; commentary by Fitch W BJA 81:797, 1998

*Spence AA, Smith G. Postoperative analgesia and lung function: a comparison of morphine with extradural block. Br J Anaesth 81:984-988, 1998 [Citation Classic series; orig. pub. BJA 43:144-148, 1971. Commentary by Reilly CS BJA 81:982-983, 1998]

*Story GO. Jonathan Pereira (1804-1853), the father of pharmacology. J Med Biogr 6:206-216, 1998 [portrait, 7 illus., 44 refs., appendices on Pereira's publications and Jacob Bell]

*Story of spinal anesthesia--offering patients pain relief without undergoing general anesthesia. ASRA News p 6-7 February 1999 [rep. NYSSA Sphere 50(4), October-December 1998]

*Sykes P. Practising through the changes: a personal history of SAAD. SAAD Dig 15:7-17, 1998

*Traber DL, Redl H. In memoriam: Gunther Schlag, MD. Crit Care Med 26:1961-1962, 1998

*Van Zundert A. Dr. Donald Bruce Scott: Sydney, 16 December 1925-Edinburgh, 2 November 1998. ASRA News p 7 February 1999 [obituary]

*Virginia Apgar, M.D., notable woman of the 20th century. ASA Newsletter 63(2): 24, February 1999 [1 illus.]

*Zeitlin GL. M.S.A. celebrates "50th" anniversary. M[assachusetts] S[ociety] [of] A[nesthesiologists] Anesthesia Record 28(1):6, summer/fall 1998 [1 illus.]