FROM THE LITERATURE

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

Note: This listing will appear in a future issue of the Bulletin of Anesthesia History.

*Bergman NA. The Genesis of Surgical Anesthesia. Park Ridge, Illinois: Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology, 1998 [rev. Bacon DR. Bull Hist Med 73:319-320, 1999; Pernick MS NEJM 341:458-459, 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, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1999. [rev. Bibel BM Library Journal 15 May 1999, p 117]

*Fairman J, Lynaugh JE. Critical Care Nursing: A History. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998 [rev. Romaine-Davis A. Bull Hist Med 73:350-351, 1999]

*Morris DB. Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998 [rev. Rothstein WG JAMA 281:2050, 1999; includes material on chronic pain]

*Spillane JF. Cocaine: From Medical Marvel to Modern Menace in the United States, 1884-1920. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, December 1999

*Starr D. Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce. New York: Knopf, 1998 [rev. Rosen FS Nature 398:303-304, 1999; Pierce EH Jr. JAMA 282:797-798, 1999]

*Adams AK. From faculty to royal college: the golden jubilee of the Faculty of Anaesthetists of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Ann R Coll Surg Eng 80(6, suppl):273-275, November 1998 [5 illus.]

*Aldrete JA. Valentino D.B. Mazzia (1922-1999). Anesthesiology News 25(6):6, 8, June 1999 [obituary]

*Ball C, Westhorpe R. The water depression flowmeter. Anaesth Intens Care 27(3):237, June 1999

[cover note]

*Ball C, Westhorpe R. Maximillian Neu and the first anaesthetic rotameter. Anaesth Intens Care 27(4):333, August 1999 [cover note] [1 illus., 6 refs.]

*Benad G, Rose W. The history of the development of intensive care medicine in Germany. Contemporary reflections. 4. Structural development of operative intensive care medicine in the former German Democratic Republic. Anaesthesist 48(4):251-262, April 1999 [35 refs., German]

*Bernstein AM, Koo HP, Bloom DA. Beyond the Trendelenburg position: Friedrich Trendelenburg's life and surgical contributions. Surgery 126(1):78-82, July 1999 [3 illus. including portrait, 14 refs.]

*Caton D. The history of obstetric anesthesia. In: Chestnut DH, ed. Obstetric Anesthesia. 2nd ed. St. Louis: Mosby, 1999, pp 3-13 [9 illus., 52 refs.]

*Daves P. Crawford W. Long, M.D. J Med Assoc Ga 88(2):34-35, April 1999 [portrait, 4 refs.]

*Engel BT. An historical and critical review of the articles on blood pressure published in Psychosomatic Medicine between 1939 and 1997. Psychosom Med 60:682-696, 1998 [208 refs., 1 illus., 2 tables, append.]

*Feeley TW. Emery A. Rovenstine Memorial Lecture: Carl C. Hug, Jr., M.D., will present "Patient values, Hippocrates, Science and Technology." ASA Newsletter 63(7):7,9, July 1999

*Feeley TW, ed. Back in time: selected articles from 1962 to 1970. International Anesthesiology Clinics, Vol. 36, number 4, winter 1998. [rev. Spence AA. Br J Anaesth 82:957, 1999]

*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 [rev. Norman J. Br J Anaesth 83(2):366-367, August 1999]

*Franco A, Cortes J, Aneiros F, Naveira A, Rabanal S, Alvarez J. Obstetric anesthesia/analgesia in Spain. Study notes on its historical evolution during the 1st half of this century. Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim 46(1):19-36, January 1999 [Spanish]

*Galve BJ, Gotzens VJ. Spinal anesthesia and anatomical knowledge. Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim 46(3):97-98, March 1999 [editorial; Spanish]

*Gatt S. George Madgwick Davidson. Anaesth Intens Care 27(3):312-313, June 1999 [obituary; portrait]

*Historical abstract: The Hyderabad Chloroform Commission. Paediatr Anaesth 9(4):365-366, 1999

*Holzman RS. The legacy of Atropos, the fate who cut the thread of life. Anesthesiology 89:241-249, 1999 [63 refs., 4 illus.] [covers anticholinergic agents as anodynes in the ancient world] [see Lai DC and Takrouri MSM letters cited below] [Holzman responds Anesthesiology 90(6):1795-1796, June 1999]

*James FAJL. The bicentenary of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Chemical Heritage 17(2):45, summer 1999 [illus.: Gillray's caricature of H. Davy's nitrous oxide demonstration]

*Jay V. On a historical note: Dr. Virginia Apgar. Pediatr Develop Pathol 2(3): 292-294, 1999

*Kopp VJ. Henry Knowles Beecher and the development of informed consent in anesthesia research. Anesthesiology 90:1756-1765, 1999 [23 refs., 1 table] [see editorial by Truog RD et al cited below]

*Lai DC. More on the legacy of Atropos, with special reference to Datura stramonium. Anesthesiology 90(6):1794-1795, June 1999 [22 refs.] [see Holzman RS cited above] [letter]

*Lawin P, Opderbecke HW. History of the development of intensive care medicine. Contemporary considerations--part 3: structural development of internal intensive care medicine. Anaesthesist 48(2):97-107, February 1999 [German]

*Lemburg P. History of the development of intensive care medicine. Contemporary considerations--part 5. Structural development of pediatric intensive care medicine. Anaesthesist 48(5):325-336, May 1999 [German]

*Mackey DC. The history of spinal drug delivery: the evolution of lumbar puncture and spinal narcosis. In: Yaksh TL, ed. Spinal Drug Delivery. New York: Elsevier, 1999, pp 1-41 [32 illus., numerous references]

*May C, Doyle H, Chew-Graham C. Medical knowledge and the intractable patient: the case of chronic low back pain. Soc Sci Med 48(4):523-534, February 1999

*McGoldrick KE. Lewis H. Wright Memorial Lecture: Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D., recipient of the National Book Award, to present "Surgery as It Was on that Day in 1846: Before and After. ASA Newsletter 63(7):8-9, July 1999

*McNally RJ. EMDR and mesmerism: a comparative historical analysis. J Anxiety Disord 13(1-2):225-236, January-April 1999 [numerous references; EMDR is "eye movement desensitization and reprocessing"]

*Menendez JV, Burns T, Bacon DR. Lincoln Fleetwood Sie: regional anesthesia's forgotten man? Reg Anesth Pain Med 24(4):364-368, 1999 [2 illus., 25 refs.]

*Morris LE. Earliest encounters with a friendly stranger, and the current resurgence of interest [in xenon]. Appl Cardiopulmon Pathophysiol 7(3):149-151, 1998 [editorial; 13 refs.]

*Nelson CW. Dr. John S. Lundy and the 75th anniversary of anesthesiology at Mayo. Mayo Clin Proc 74(7):650, July 1999

*Owens WD. Harry H. Bird, M.D., receives 1998 Distinguished Service Award. ASA Newsletter 63(8):19, August 1999 [portrait]

*Podoll K, Robinson D. Lewis Carroll's migraine experiences. Lancet 353:1366, April 17, 1999 [5 refs, 1 illus.]

*Poll JS. The story of the gauge. Anaesthesia 54:575-581, 1999 [3 illus., 1 table, 21 refs.]

*Poppers PJ. Anesthesiology: past, present and future. A personal perspective. NYSSA Sphere 51(2):58-68, April-June 1999 [portrait of author]

*Rose W. Forty years of anesthesiology in German. Anaesthesiol Reanim 24(1):19-26, 1999 [German]

*Rutkow IM. Crawford Williamson Long. Arch Surg 134(5):578, May 1999 [Illus.: 1940 U.S. postage stamp]

*Rutkow IM. Anesthesia during the Civil War. Arch Surg 134(6):680, June 1999 [illus.: "rare extant example of bottled chloroform"]

*Schmidt PJ. 50 classic illustrations of the beginnings of bloodletting and transfusion. Ther Apher 1(4):377-379, November 1997 [letter]

*Spence AA, Smith G. Postoperative analgesia and lung function: a comparison of morphine with extradural block. Br J Anaesth 81(6):984-988, December 1998 [reprint classic article from 1971; discussion 81:982-983, 1998]

*Spielman FJ. Awakening in a deep dream. Am J Anesthesiol 26(5):235-236, June 1999 [1 illus., 3 refs.; discusses history of awareness under anesthesia and a patient's 1955 painting]

*Takrouri MSM. Anesthetic uses of hyoscine and atropine alkaloids in surgical Arabic book. Anesthesiology 90(6):1795, June 1999 [4 refs.] [see Holzman RS cited above] [letter]

*Truog RD, Robinson W. Informed consent for research: the acheivements of the past and the challenges of the future. Anesthesiology 90:1499-1501, 1999 [12 refs.] [see article by Kopp VJ cited above]

*Wilkinson M, Isler H. The pioneer woman's view of migraine: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson's thesis "Sur la migraine." Cephalalgia 19(1):3-15, January 1999 [3 illus.]

*Yagiela JA. Office-based anesthesia in dentistry. Past, present, and future trends. Dent Clin North Amer 43(2):201-215, April 1999