FROM THE LITERATURE

A.J. Wright, M.L.S.
Department of Anesthesiology Library
University of Alabama at Birmingham

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

*Bergman NA. The Genesis of Surgical Anesthesia. Park Ridge, Ill.: Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology, 1998. [rev. Pierce EC Jr. JAMA 281:953, 1999; Adams AK, J Med Biog 6:185-186, 1998]

*Fairman J, Lynaugh JE. Critical Care Nursing: A History. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. [rev. Philadelphia Inquirer 21 March 1999: http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/99/Mar/21/books/NURSE21.htm]

*Lindqvist K. Xylocaine: A Discovery, A Drama, A History. Sodertalje: Astra, 1993

*Starr D. Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce. New York: Knopf, 1998. [rev. Schwartz RS. NEJM 340:973-974, 1999]

*West JB. High Life: A History of High-Altitude Physiology and Medicine. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. [rev. Houson CS NEJM 340:1295, 1999; Glauser FL JAMA 281:1341-1342, 1999]

*Young TM. A Short History of the Section of Anaesthetics of the Royal Society of Medicine and the Society of Anaesthetists. London: Royal Society of Medicine, 1998 [rev. Eur J Anaesthesiol 16:271, 1999]

*Ball C, Westhorpe R. The Coxeter Boyle gas anaesthesia apparatus. Anaesth Intens Care 27:129, 1999 [illus., 5 refs.]

*Belkin NL. Surgical scrubs--where we were, where we are going. Today's Surg Nurs 20(2):28-34, March/April 1998 [3 illus., 3 tables, 23 refs.]

*Bezerra do Vale N. Obstetric anesthesia 150th anniversary. Rev Bras Anestesiol 48(5): 424-440, September-October 1998

*Bezerra do Vale N. One hundred years of surgical spinal block. Rev Bras Anestesiol 48(6): 507-520, November-December 1998

*Bill Marinko to retire after 35 years with ASA. ASA Newsletter 63(3):20, March 1999 [illus.]

*Blansfield JS. The origins of casualty evacuation and echelons of care: lessons learned from the American Civil War. Int J Trauma Nurs 5(1): 5-9, January-March 1999

*Blau JN. Soranus of Ephesus on migraine. Lancet 353:678, February 20, 1999 [correspondence] [3 refs.]

*Bouchet H. The beginnings of anesthesia. Ann Chir 52(9):935-939, 1998 [French]

*Brody H, Vinten-Johansen P, Paneth N, Rip MR. John Snow revisited: getting a handle on the Broad Street pump. Pharos 62(1): 2-8, winter 1999

*Caton D. The influence of feminists on the early development of obstetric anesthesia. Surv Anesthesiol 43(2): 115-120, April 1999 [32 refs.]

*Caton D. ...the Wood Library-Museum: a tradition of service. ASA Newsletter 63(5):24-25, May 1999

*Chast F. Morphine by external route, prescribed to Heinrich Heine by David Gruby. Rev Hist Pharm (Paris) 46(320):391-396, 1998 [French]

*Davies MK, Hollman A. Stamps in cardiology: blood transfusion. Heart 80(5):423, November 1998

*Discovery of aspirin. Nurs Stand 13(21):33-34, February 10-16, 1999

*Dolan BP. Blowpipes and batteries: Humphry Davy, Edward Daniel Clarke, and experimental chemistry in early nineteenth-century Britain. Ambix 45(3): 137-162, November 1998

*Filho ALO, Obladen E. Doctor Armando Obladen. Rev Bras Anestesiol 49(2): 148, March-April 1999 [obituary]

*Friedman M, Friedland GW. Medicine's Ten Greatest Discoveries. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1998 [includes William Morton's development of anesthesia as #56]

*Golinski J. Humphry Davy's sexual chemistry. Configurations 7:15-41, 1999

*Grant FC. Autotransfusion. Clin Orthop 357:4-5, December 1998 [classical article]

*Greene NM. In memoriam: Gwenifer C.M. Wilson, MD, MBBS, DA (Syd), FANZCA, WLM Laureate of the History of Anesthesia. NYSSA Sphere 51(1):16-18, January-March 1999 [portrait]

*Houghton IT. The Marrett apparatus. Anaesth Intensive Care 27(1):113-114, February 1999 [letter]

*Howat DD. Sir Frederic William Hewitt MVO MD. Part 1: early life and work on nitrous oxide. J Med Biogr 7(1):5-10, February 1999

*Jackson DD. You will feel no pain. Smithsonian 29(12):126-140, March 1999 [hypnosis; 9 illus., 4 refs.]

*Koehler PJ, Bruyn GW. Migraine treatment in the Netherlands in the early twentieth century. Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd 142(36):2009-2013, September 5, 1998 [Dutch]

*Lawin P. The historical development of intensive care in Germany. Contemporary reflections. Anaesthetist 47(12):983-992, December 1998 [German] [see article by Schuster HP below]

*Mendes DMC. Claudio Porto da Luz. Rev Bras Anestesiol 48(5): 441, September-October 1998 [obituary]

*Moore FD. John Collins Warren and his act of conscience: a brief narrative of the trial and triumph of a great surgeon. Ann Surg 229(2): 187-196, February 1999 [2 illus., 26 refs.]

*Nagai M. History of autologous blood transfusion in neurosurgical operations. No Shinkei Geka 26(12):1117-1122, December 1998 [Japanese]

*Oliveira AS. Alvaro Guilherme de Bezerril Eugenio (1935-1998). Rev Brasil Anestesiol 48(3): 242, May-June 1998 [obituary]

*P. Ore: a pioneer of intravenous anaesthesia. Pediat Anaesth 9(1):18, January 1999 [historical abstract]

*Passaro E Jr, Organ CH Jr. Ernest A. Codman: the improper Bostonian. Bull Am Coll Surg 84(1):16-22, January 1999 [1 portrait, 3 tables, 2 illus., 11 refs.]

*Prioreschi P, Heaney RP, Brehm E. A quantitative assessment of ancient therapeutics: poppy and pain in the Hippocratic Corpus. Med Hypoth 51:325-331, 1998 [42 notes/refs.]

*Roberts S. John Snow (1813-1858) and Benjamin Ward Richardson (1828-1896): a notable friendship. J Med Biogr 7(1): 42-49, February 1999

*Rossi ED, et al. A history of transfusion. In: Spiess BD, et al, eds. Perioperative Transfusion Medicine. Williams and Wilkins, 1998, pp 3-12 [3 illus., 2 tables, 91 refs.]

*Sands RP Jr, Bacon DR. Ralph Waters as a regional anesthesiologist. Reg Anesth Pain Med 24(3):252-254, 1999 [3 illus., 1 table, 3 refs.]

*Schuster HP. History of the development of intensive care medicine. Contemporary considerations--Part 2: Structural development of internal intensive care medicine. Anaesthesist 48(1):26-35, 1999 [German] [see article by Lawin P above]

*Severinghaus JW. Hans Loeschcke, Robert Mitchell and the medullary CO2 chemoreceptors: a brief historical review. Respir Physiol 114(1):17-24, October 1998

*Simonetti MPB, de Oliveira LMC, Arasawa AH. Thirty years of ketamine: the route of a pharmacological trip. Rev Bras Anestesiol 48(6): 525-526, November-December 1998 [correspondence]

*Spielman FJ. Behind the screen. Am J Anesthesiol 26(3):140-141, April 1999 ["Art and Anesthesia" series]

*Stavem P. Halsted--the legendary surgeon. Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen 119(1):86-87, January 10, 1999 [Norwegian; correspondence]

*Symons J. The quest for Hickman. Med Hist 43:95-107, 1999 [1 portrait, 3 illus., 45 refs.] [Henry Hill Hickman]

*Tanihara S, Morioka S, Kodama K, Hashimoto T, Yanagawa H, Holland WW. Snow on cholera---the special lecture in the Second British Epidemiology and Public Health Course at Kansai Systems Laboratory on 24 August 1996. J Epidemiol 8(4):185-194, October 1998

*Tetrault J-P. Dr. Yves Lamarche 1930-1998. Can J Anesth 46(5):508-509, May 1999 [portrait]

*Tribute...Robert Alvin Berman, M.D. NYSSA Sphere 51(1):37, January-March 1999 [illus., including issue cover]

*Wildsmith JAW. Donald Bruce Scott, M.D., F.R.C.A., F.R.C.P.Ed., 1925-1998. Reg Anesth Pain Med 24(3):195-196, 1999 [portrait]

*Wilkinson D. The Marrett apparatus. Anaesth Intensive Care 2(1):113-114, February 1999 [letter]

*Young CT. Transfusion medicine in Rhode Island. Med Health R I 82(2):73, February 1999 [correspondence]