UI - 92276987

AU - Ring ME

TI - Dentistry's contributions to medicine.

SO - J Md State Dent Assoc 1991 Winter;34(4):12-9

UI - 93140683

AU - Haddad FS

TI - First newspaper announcements of the first public demonstration of ether

anesthesia.

SO - Middle East J Anesthesiol 1992 Oct;11(6):583-5

UI - 93129738

AU - Goerig M ; Bohrer H

TI - [Historical vignette (6). Carl Ludwig Schleich and the scandal at the

Berlin 1892 Surgical Congress]

SO - Anasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther 1992 Nov;27(7):453-4

UI - 93121189

AU - Forgue E

TI - [A manual of surgical anesthesia. Chapter XIII. General anesthesia with

reduced circulation (classical article)]

SO - Cah Anesthesiol 1992;40(4):293-4

UI - 93113216

AU - Friedlander WJ

TI - The Bigelow-Simpson controversy: still another early argument over the

discovery of anesthesia.

SO - Bull Hist Med 1992 Winter;66(4):613-25

UI - 93086551

AU - Wilson G

TI - The first anaesthetics in Australia: an historical update [see comments]

CM - Comment in: Med J Aust 1993 Jul 5;159(1):68

SO - Med J Aust 1992 Dec 7-21;157(11-12):781-4

UI - 93072769

AU - Healy TE ; Un EN

TI - The Mancunian way.

AB - The authors have examined early records of the administration of ether

anaesthesia in Manchester and the lives of several medical men involved

in these events. Charles Strange, a dentist and chemist, in a letter to

the Manchester Guardian published on 14 January 1847, described a

self-administration of ether for dental extraction, but George Bowring, a

surgeon, subsequently claimed the first anaesthetic administered by a

doctor in Manchester. The merits of these claims are discussed in the

light of the circumstances surrounding these events.

SO - Anaesthesia 1992 Oct;47(10):882-6

UI - 93041455

AU - Brown DL ; Winnie AP

TI - Biography of Louis Gaston Labat, M.D. [see comments]

CM - Comment in: Reg Anesth 1993 Jan-Feb;18(1):64

SO - Reg Anesth 1992 Sep-Oct;17(5):249-62

UI - 93023074

AU - Gordh T

TI - [The man behind the narcosis. Crawford Long--the man behind ether

narcosis. He was threatened by lynching when performing painless surgery]

SO - Lakartidningen 1992 Sep 23;89(39):3168

UI - 93005963

AU - Jacobsohn PH

TI - Victory over pain: an historical perspective.

AB - Horace Wells, a dentist, is credited with the discovery of anesthesia.

However, there are others who experimented with inhalation agents long

before Wells' time. This paper reviews the history of anesthesia and

recounts its discovery by Wells in 1844 as we approach the 150th

anniversary of the event.

SO - Anesth Pain Control Dent 1992 Winter;1(1):49-52

UI - 93003975

AU - Buzello W ; Diefenbach C

TI - [Curare and its successors. A 50-year's evolution]

AB - The introduction of curare into clinical anaesthesia by Griffith and

Johnson in 1942 contributed to the termination of the era where

anaesthesia was a reversible intoxication rather than the result of

controlled drug action. Curare allowed general anaesthesia to be reduced

to a lighter level, thereby conferring a significant safety factor to the

patient. Both the shortage in supply of crude curare and its variable

composition led the search for synthetic curare analogues conferring well

defined pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic properties. Based on the

chemical structure of tubocurarine which has been known since 1935 the

efforts concentrated on bisquaternary ammonium compounds. Gallamine was

the only synthetic curare analogue to contain three quaternary ammonium

groups. This drug had significant undesired vagolytic effects. In 1951

succinylbischoline appeared to be the ideal muscle relaxant, particularly

with respect to its fast onset and short duration of action. The

disadvantages of its depolarising mechanism of action which were

appreciated during the years to follow prevented the concept of

depolarising neuromuscular blockade to be pursued further. With other

muscle relaxants, including curare itself, histamine release, vagal

blockade and ganglionic blockade were undesired effects to be eliminated

in future compounds. Improved understanding of structure-activity

relationships turned out to be an indispensable tool for future research.

This in turn required more elaborate methods in chemical analysis, in

electrophysiology of the motor endplate, and in ultrastructural research.

As a result, alcuronium and pancuronium became available in the late

sixties and early seventies. Both muscle relaxants had a non-depolarising

mechanism of action with reduced side effects relative to curare. From

now on better techniques for pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic research

became available resulting in research activity with particular emphasis

in this field. Researchers became aware that new muscle relaxants should

be designed for larger volumes of distribution and more rapid

biodegradation than those currently available. Concurrently, anaesthesia

techniques had changed in a way to use intubation and mechanical

ventilation as a routine procedure. The risk of intraoperative

hypoventilation and hypoxemia was eliminated, yet, due to the lack of

adequate monitoring techniques the slow recovery from curare, alcuronium

or pancuronium neuromuscular blockade was hardly appreciated.(ABSTRACT

TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)

SO - Anasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther 1992 Aug;27(5):290-9

UI - 92398005

AU - Westhorpe R

TI - de Caux's endotracheal tube.

SO - Anaesth Intensive Care 1992 Aug;20(3):271

UI - 92375433

AU - Hutchinson BR

TI - Early anaesthetics in New Zealand [letter]

SO - N Z Med J 1992 Aug 26;105(940):343

UI - 92369260

AU - Bohrer H ; Goerig M

TI - [Historical vignette (1). Crawford W. Long]

SO - Anasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther 1992 Feb;27(1):59

UI - 92369249

AU - Stoeckel H

TI - [The 150th anniversary of anesthesia. 1992-1996: a space of 5 years for

evaluating the history of anesthesia in the German-speaking world

(editorial)]

SO - Anasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther 1992 Feb;27(1):1-2

UI - 92330987

AU - Lassner J

TI - [The debut of ether anesthesia in Germany]

SO - Cah Anesthesiol 1992;40(2):139-40

UI - 92287854

AU - Lofstrom JB

TI - 1991 Labat Lecture. The effect of local anesthetics on the peripheral

vasculature.

RF - REVIEW ARTICLE: 81 REFS.

AB - The effects of local anesthetic agents on the peripheral vasculature are

not uniform and not easily described. Factors governing these effects are

as follows: the method of application (i.e., intravenously,

intraarterially, or locally): When injected into the venous system, a

stimulating effect (central nervous system effect) is usual, which

dominates over a peripheral vasoconstriction effect; the concentration:

Resistance to flow is reduced with high concentrations and

vasoconstriction occurs with low concentrations; the target organ (e.g.,

skin, placenta, lungs, splanchnic bed, and spinal cord), which is

significant; an anti-adrenaline-like effect; isomers, which can differ in

their effect (mepivacaine, not bupivacaine). With these final comments I

would like to conclude this presentation. I hope that it has been as

stimulating for you as an audience as it has been for me in preparing it.

I would again like to express my deep and sincere gratitude for the honor

you have bestowed upon me and for the kind attention you have devoted to

my lecture.

SO - Reg Anesth 1992 Jan-Feb;17(1):1-11

UI - 92286074

AU - Kudella R

TI - [Discoverer of anesthesia denied the glory]

SO - Zahnarztl Mitt 1991 Dec 1;81(23):2402, 2404

UI - 92248352

AU - Menczer LF

TI - If Wells were alive.

SO - Bull Hist Dent 1991 Apr;39(1):7-10

UI - 92243236

AU - Menczer LF ; Jacobsohn PH

TI - Dr Horace Wells: the discoverer of general anesthesia.

AB - The discovery of anesthesia in the second quarter of the 19th century was

one of the greatest advances in the history of medicine. This discovery

has been variously attributed to Long, Wells, Morton, Jackson, and

others. In this article, the authors place in perspective the role each

of these men has played. The conclusion is that to Wells belongs the

singular honor and title of discoverer.

SO - J Oral Maxillofac Surg 1992 May;50(5):506-9

UI - 92218886

AU - Young JH

TI - Crawford W. Long in his medical setting.

SO - J Med Assoc Ga 1992 Mar;81(3):127-35

UI - 92186433

AU - Kyle RA ; Shampo MA

TI - Harold R. Griffith--introduction of muscle relaxants to anesthesia.

SO - Mayo Clin Proc 1992 Mar;67(3):237

UI - 92169277

AU - Hervas Puyal C

TI - [A clarification concerning the figure of Juan Vicente Edo (letter)]

SO - Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim 1991 Sep-Oct;38(5):347-8

UI - 92169271

AU - Pages F

TI - [Metameric anesthesia. 1921 (classical article)]

SO - Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim 1991 Sep-Oct;38(5):318-26

UI - 92169270

AU - Hervas Puyal C

TI - [The perennial relevance of a classic: Fidel Pages and epidural

anesthesia]

SO - Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim 1991 Sep-Oct;38(5):317-8

UI - 92134921

AU - Naess K

TI - [Pharmacology (12). Pain-killing agents--history]

SO - Fag Tidsskr Sykepleien 1991 Oct 14;79(8):25-7

UI - 92123993

AU - Hervas Puyal C ; Cahisa Mur M

TI - [Nitrous oxide in dental anesthesia: facts about its introduction in

Spain]

AB - After a free period of twenty years the interest for using nitrous oxide

in suppressing pain related to dental surgery has increased since the end

of the sixties of the last century. In this work we present the result of

our investigations on the person who must be considered the introducer of

this technique in Spain: Jose Meifren Alfares, odontologist at

Barcelona.

SO - Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim 1991 Jul-Aug;38(4):251-6

UI - 92117219

AU - Westhorpe R

TI - Trendelenburg's Cone and Cannula.

SO - Anaesth Intensive Care 1991 Aug;19(3):319

UI - 92109323

AU - Franco Grande A ; Cortes Laino J ; Vidal MI ; Picatto P

TI - An American dentist pioneered anesthesia in Spain [letter]

SO - Anesthesiology 1992 Jan;76(1):154

UI - 92092588

AU - Stazhadze LL ; Sigaev VV

TI - [S. S. Iudin's views on the problems of anesthesia]

AB - The article expounds S. S. Yudin's views on problems of anesthesia in

various periods of his surgical activity: ideas on the necessity of

introducing modern multicomponent endotracheal anesthesia were expressed

before the mid-forties. S. S. Yudin's experience in applying spinal

anesthesia gave rise today to the wide use of epidural anesthesia.

SO - Khirurgiia (Mosk) 1991 Sep;(9):67-70

UI - 92092576

AU - Beliaev AA

TI - [Spinal anesthesia]

AB - The article deals with some aspects of spinal anesthesia. It analyses in

the light of possible complications the results of spinal anesthesia

conducted in 4,186 cases with 1% sovcaine (cinchocaine hydrochloride)

solution and 5% novocaine (procaine hydrochloride) solution by 60

surgeons. Spinal anesthesia was applied in patients, whose ages ranged

from 11 to 96 years, in various operations. Contraindications for the

method were determined. The author appraises comparatively spinal

anesthesia with the related peridural anesthesia and discusses the

prospects of the development of the method with the existence of new

anesthetics and very thin needles for puncture of the subarachnoid space,

which leads to the minimum number of possible complications.

SO - Khirurgiia (Mosk) 1991 Sep;(9):23-8

UI - 92088063

AU - Westhorpe R

TI - Kuhn's endotracheal tube.

SO - Anaesth Intensive Care 1991 Nov;19(4):489

UI - 92081014

AU - Schwarz W

TI - [The development of anesthesia in german-speaking regions in the 19th

century]

AB - Following the first public demonstration of ether anaesthesia by W.T.G.

Morton on October 16, 1846, the pioneers to perform ether anaesthesia in

German speaking countries were H. A. Demme, surgeon at the University

Hospital Bern, Switzerland, on January 23, 1847, the German surgeon J. F.

Heyfelder at Erlangen on January 24, and the Austrian surgeon F. Schuh in

Vienna on January 27, 1847. The first books in German language referring

to clinical experience with and experimental research on sulphuric ether

were published in March/April 1847. After the introduction of chloroform

the use of ether anaesthesia rapidly decreased. Chloroform administration

was smoother and much more easier not requiring any special apparatus.

Chloroform remained the preferred anaesthetic till the end of the century

although there happened significantly more deaths due to this agent than

to ether. Since 1863 nitrous oxide again was propagated for pain relief

in dental practice. German investigators provided pioneering

contributions to the development of local and regional anaesthesia. C.

Koller, Vienna, was the first to operate on a patient in local

anaesthesia with cocaine. The next steps were the introduction of

infiltration anaesthesia by C. L. Schleich in 1892/1894 and of spinal

anaesthesia by A. Bier in 1899. The ultimate success of local and

regional anaesthesia was made possible by using adrenaline with the local

anaesthetic (1901) and by the introduction of novocaine in 1905.(ABSTRACT

TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

SO - Ther Umsch 1991 Jun;48(6):360-4

UI - 92074611

AU - Defalque RJ ; Wright AJ

TI - The first anesthetic mixture [letter] [published erratum appears in

Anesthesiology 1993 Dec;79(6):1446]

SO - Anesthesiology 1991 Dec;75(6):1118-9

UI - 92069734

AU - Zach GA

TI - Hypnosis, Part I: A historical overview.

AB - The roots of hypnosis go back to the beginning of recorded history and

probably beyond. Part I of this three-part series will discuss the

origins of the practice of hypnosis and its cultivation through history.

SO - Compendium 1990 May;11(5):290, 292-3, 296-7

UI - 92066311

AU - Ring ME

TI - History lesson [letter]

SO - N Y State Dent J 1991 Oct;57(8):10, 12

UI - 92035224

AU - Shephard DA

TI - W. Easson Brown (1894-1957).

SO - Can J Anaesth 1991 Jul;38(5):682

UI - 92024236

AU - Panning B

TI - [Joseph Weiger and the introduction of anesthesia in Vienna]

AB - The first administration of ether in Vienna was performed by Schuh in

1847. 2 days later also von Wattmann used ether for anaesthesia.

Approximately at the same time the nowadays nearly unknown dentist Joseph

Weiger began to give ether anaesthesia for dental surgery. He reported in

1850 about his experiences in more than 21,000 operations. A further

publication in 1851 gave a survey about the known ether literature.

SO - Wien Med Wochenschr 1991;141(13):291-3

UI - 92020054

AU - Bergman NA

TI - Humphry Davy's contribution to the introduction of anesthesia: a new

perspective.

SO - Perspect Biol Med 1991 Summer;34(4):534-41

UI - 91311985

AU - Hambrecht FT ; Rhode M ; Hawk A

TI - Dr. Chisolm's inhaler: a rare Confederate medical invention.

SO - J S C Med Assoc 1991 May;87(5):277-80

UI - 91292641

AU - Maltby JR

TI - William Bayard 1814-1907 [letter; comment]

CM - Comment on: Can J Anaesth 1990 Nov;37(8):932

SO - Can J Anaesth 1991 May;38(4 Pt 1):539

UI - 91280120

AU - Vaca Miguel JM ; Garcia Camarero EJ ; Alaejos A ; Llorente A ; Tamayo E

TI - [Origins of the rachial administration of cocaine in Spain]

AB - The use of a rachidial pathway for the obtaining of anaesthesia has been

the consequence of two events: The discovering of cocaine by Koller and

the description made by Corning of the intraspinal passage. If we add to

it the attempt to avoid side-effects from ether and chloroform, we find,

at the beginning of the century, an enormous increase in the use of the

intrarrachidial technique. In the present work, we endeavour to trace the

origins of this technique in Spain as well as exposing it and the most

outstanding results.

SO - Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim 1991 Jan-Feb;38(1):38-40

UI - 91280104

AU - Vaca Miguel JM ; Granda Juesas J ; Garcia Camarero EJ ; Alaejos

Estebanez A ; Llorente de la Fuente A ; Tamayo Gomez E

TI - [Intra-arterial regional anesthesia]

AB - One of the most easy and effective ways for obtaining insensibility at

the extremities, with a minimal danger for the patients, is the

intravenous regional anesthesia. However, the origin of this type of

anesthesia still remains controversial. Some of the questions suggested

by this theme are answered in this article. It is very likely that the

basis of this technique were established by Dr. Jose Goyanes Capdevila,

who by the beginning of this century was a lecturer in Surgery at

Madrid's University. It must be considered that he used the arterial

pathway following the anatomical and physiological criteria in use then.

SO - Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim 1990 Nov-Dec;37(6):356-9

UI - 91280084

AU - Hervas Pujal C ; Cahisa Mur M

TI - [Antionio Morales Perez and thermal etherization]

AB - During the last decades of XIXth century, after a 40-year parenthesis,

interest on ether as anesthetic agent is being elicited again in some

European countries. In the present paper, we study the personal method of

Antonio Morales, the Spanish surgeon. His method, the so-called thermic

etherization, is encompassed within the group of techniques that were

based on anesthetic vapor heating techniques. We also describe the device

SO - Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim 1990 Sep-Oct;37(5):278-83

UI - 91278300

AU - Matsuki A

TI - [Pioneers of spinal anesthesia in Japan: the achievements of Nan-su Pak]

SO - Masui 1990 Dec;39(12):1720-3

UI - 91189474

AU - Westhorpe R

TI - Junker's inhalers.

SO - Anaesth Intensive Care 1991 Feb;19(1):3

UI - 91159218

AU - Raj PP

TI - 1990 Labat lecture. Pain relief: fact or fancy?

SO - Reg Anesth 1990 Jul-Aug;15(4):157-69

UI - 91159104

AU - McAuley JE

TI - 'The Yankee dodge' [letter; comment]

CM - Comment on: Br Dent J 1990 Oct 6;169(7):217-9

SO - Br Dent J 1991 Jan 5;170(1):9

UI - 91150434

AU - Holmdahl MH

TI - Two early Swedish contributions to the understanding of lung ventilation

during anaesthesia. Special lecture 1989-09-28.

SO - Acta Anaesthesiol Scand Suppl 1990;94:82-5

UI - 91144068

AU - Wilkinson DJ

TI - Dr F.P. de Caux--the first user of curare for anesthesia in England.

AB - Curare was used in the 19th century in England by a wide variety of

scientists, physicians and veterinarians. Their experiments indicated

many of the properties of the drug, but its clinical usage remained very

limited and was reserved for cases of tetanus, hydrophobia and strychnine

poisoning. Griffith and Johnson are usually credited with the

introduction of curare into clinical anaesthesia in 1942, but a Dr F.P.

de Caux working at the North Middlesex Hospital, London, in 1928 utilised

curare in a series of seven patients. His work was not widely publicized

and this contribution to anaesthetic history has been overlooked by

subsequent authors.

SO - Anaesthesia 1991 Jan;46(1):49-51

UI - 91135974

AU - Smith GB ; Hirsch NP

TI - Gardner Quincy Colton: pioneer of nitrous oxide anesthesia.

SO - Anesth Analg 1991 Mar;72(3):382-91

UI - 91124154

AU - Hine MK

TI - "Moderation in all things" Terence (190-159 BC).

SO - J Indiana Dent Assoc 1990 Nov;69(6):38-9

UI - 91123488

AU - Johnston WD

TI - "Vignettes" or a portrayal of Horace Wells.

SO - J Conn State Dent Assoc 1990 Fall;66(2):16-9

UI - 91121876

AU - Morgenstern H

TI - [Affair of dentist Duchesne. Judgement that banned general anesthesia in

dental offices]

SO - Chir Dent Fr 1990 Dec 20-27;60(544-545):14-9

UI - 91113612

AU - Hilgenhurst G

TI - The Bier block after 80 years: a historical review [see comments]

RF - REVIEW ARTICLE: 71 REFS.

CM - Comment in: Reg Anesth 1990 Sep-Oct;15(5):271

SO - Reg Anesth 1990 Jan-Feb;15(1):2-5

UI - 91104557

AU - Marx GF

TI - Personal reflections on 50 years of obstetric anesthesia.

SO - Reg Anesth 1990 Sep-Oct;15(5):232-6

UI - 91075213

AU - Simpson D

TI - Simpson and 'the discovery of chloroform'.

AB - It is widely accepted that Sir James Young Simpson discovered the

anaesthetic properties of chloroform and pioneered its application in

surgery and midwifery. The name of Simpson is not infrequently also

associated with the discovery of chloroform and of anaesthesia. Simpson

certainly did not discover the substance chloroform or anaesthesia, there

is doubt as to whether he discovered the anaesthetic properties of

chloroform, and he may not have been the first person to administer

chloroform anaesthesia to a patient. He did, however, play an important

role in the introduction of chloroform anaesthesia particularly in

midwifery and obstetrics.

SO - Scott Med J 1990 Oct;35(5):149-53

UI - 91026404

AU - Laird WR

TI - 'The Yankee dodge': some new observations on the discovery of anaesthesia

[see comments]

CM - Comment in: Br Dent J 1991 Jan 5;170(1):9

AB - The discovery of general anaesthesia is arguably the most important

advance in the practice of surgery. To whom the credit belongs has,

however, remained controversial. A first-hand account has now indicated

that this controversy can finally be resolved, and that the credit for

the discovery of anaesthesia should be given to Horace Wells.

SO - Br Dent J 1990 Oct 6;169(7):217-9

UI - 91023570

AU - Maltby JR

TI - Early reports of pulmonary aspiration during general anesthesia [letter;

comment]

CM - Comment on: Anesthesiology 1990 Apr;72(4):589-92

SO - Anesthesiology 1990 Oct;73(4):792-3

UI - 91023389

AU - Westhorpe R

TI - The Minnitt Gas/Air Apparatus (Queen Charlotte model).

SO - Anaesth Intensive Care 1990 Aug;18(3):290

UI - 90343004

AU - Doughty A

TI - Walter Stoeckel (1871-1961). A pioneer of regional analgesia in

obstetrics.

SO - Anaesthesia 1990 Jun;45(6):468-71

UI - 90313964

AU - Cramond T

TI - The fifty-sixth Bancroft Oration. "A transient popularity". Queensland's

early anaesthetists.

SO - Anaesth Intensive Care 1990 May;18(2):252-64

UI - 90247629

AU - Masson AH

TI - A Patent application [letter]

SO - Anaesthesia 1990 Apr;45(4):334-5

UI - 90237702

AU - James T

TI - Journey to Jefferson ... continued.

SO - J Med Assoc Ga 1990 Apr;79(4):223-5

UI - 90222352

AU - Hayes H Jr

TI - The contribution of Carl Ludwig Schleich.

SO - Plast Reconstr Surg 1990 May;85(5):813-6

UI - 90210281

AU - Sechzer PH

TI - Patient-controlled analgesia (PCA): a retrospective.

SO - Anesthesiology 1990 Apr;72(4):735-6

UI - 90182802

AU - Holland AJ

TI - Dr. E.D. Worthington (1820-1895)--an early Quebec anaesthetist.

SO - Can J Anaesth 1990 Mar;37(2):250

UI - 90180578

AU - Meltzer A

TI - Dr. Samuel James Meltzer and intratracheal anesthesia.

SO - J Clin Anesth 1990 Jan-Feb;2(1):54-8

UI - 90161245

AU - Goerig M ; Schulte am Esch J

TI - [Georg Perthes--a pioneer of modern regional anesthesia technics?]

AB - In regional anesthesia, the localization of peripheral nerves and

plexuses is possible by means of mechanical or electrical stimulation.

Electrical stimulation for this purpose was first described in 1912 by

the surgeon Georg Perthes (1869-1927) of Tubingen, who reported his own

experiences. The original description and results of electrostimulation

are transposed upon a modern point of view of regional anesthesia.

SO - Reg Anaesth 1990 Jan;13(1):1-5

UI - 90145658

AU - Vandam LD

TI - Abel Lawrence Peirson: early proponent of etherization [see comments]

CM - Comment in: Anesthesiology 1990 Jun;72(6):1098

SO - Anesthesiology 1990 Feb;72(2):375-8

UI - 90120111

AU - Bergman NA

TI - Early intravenous anesthesia: an eyewitness account.

AB - Descriptions of the earliest iv injections of various substances by

individuals who actually witnessed the experiments in 1656 are presented.

Of particular interest is an apparently overlooked account of an

experiment in which opium was administered intravenously to a dog many

years before 1674 as related by the physician and anatomist Thomas

Willis. He does not identify the precise date nor the experimenters.

However, at the time of this event Willis would have been at Oxford.

There he was a very close professional associate of Christopher Wren who

originated the practice of iv injection. These eyewitness accounts are

worthy of note because the articles usually cited to establish Wren as

the first individual to administer a drug intravenously were not written

by anyone who actually observed the experiments.

SO - Anesthesiology 1990 Jan;72(1):185-6

UI - 94168330

AU - Sykes P

TI - Accidents do not happen--they are caused.

SO - Anesth Prog 1992;39(4-5):111-7

UI - 93219948

AU - Rawlings C 3d ; Rossitch E Jr ; Nashold BS Jr

TI - The history of neurosurgical procedures for the relief of pain.

AB - Pain has been a major medical problem from the beginning of recorded

history. Since the earliest medical writings, there have been innumerable

procedures designed to relieve pain and its suffering. In this study, we

have reviewed both the early medical writings of various civilizations

and the first modern publications, to compile a history of neurosurgical

procedures for the relief of pain.

SO - Surg Neurol 1992 Dec;38(6):454-63

UI - 93189866

AU - Marquez C

TI - [Local anesthesia in Spain in the pre-cocaine era (letter)]

SO - Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim 1992 Nov-Dec;39(6):387

UI - 93177184

AU - Jacobson PH

TI - History of sedation and general anesthesia in dentistry: remarks in the

Ether Dome, October 10, 1990.

SO - Bull Hist Dent 1992 Oct;40(2):85-7

UI - 93144542

AU - Bohrer H ; Goerig M

TI - [Historical vignette (7). Principles of general anesthesia]

SO - Anasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther 1992 Dec;27(8):513-4

UI - 93108910

AU - Gordon E

TI - [Neurophysiologic discoveries cleared the way for development of

neuroanesthesia]

RF - REVIEW ARTICLE: 14 REFS.

SO - Lakartidningen 1992 Dec 16;89(51-52):4550-1

UI - 93103969

AU - Utting JE

TI - The era of relaxant anaesthesia [editorial]

SO - Br J Anaesth 1992 Dec;69(6):551-3

UI - 93103109

AU - Swerdlow M

TI - The early development of pain relief clinics in the UK.

SO - Anaesthesia 1992 Nov;47(11):977-80

UI - 93098424

AU - Peyton PJ

TI - Complications of continuous spinal anaesthesia.

RF - REVIEW ARTICLE: 62 REFS.

AB - The practice of continuous spinal anaesthesia dates back to the beginning

of the century. The history of the technique, and the problems which

accompanied each method used, are reviewed. Complications encountered in

current practice include post dural puncture headache; technical

difficulties with insertion and removal of catheters; and a higher

potential for nerve trauma, neurotoxicity, and method failure than seen

with single-shot spinal anaesthesia. The question of the place of the

technique in modern anaesthesia is addressed.

SO - Anaesth Intensive Care 1992 Nov;20(4):417-25

UI - 93096298

AU - Tanania S

TI - [Evolution of circuits in anesthesia]

SO - Minerva Anestesiol 1992 Oct;58(10):973-9

UI - 93081648

AU - Bohrer H ; Goerig M

TI - [Historical vignette (5).Brain anemia for more rapid induction of

anesthesia]

SO - Anasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther 1992 Oct;27(6):385

UI - 93036302

AU - Kubota Y ; Toyoda Y ; Kubota H

TI - Publications on anaesthesia in 1847 [letter]

SO - Anaesthesia 1992 Sep;47(9):823

UI - 93029807

AU - Cortes J ; Franco A ; Vidal MI

TI - [The introduction of chloroform anesthesia in Madrid. Notes for studying

its history]

AB - Until present, the introduction of chloroform anesthesia in Madrid has

not been specifically studied by any author. Therefore, knowledge of the

events related to this happening is lacking. We have studied this chapter

of our history by analyzing primary documents and articles published at

the daily press, political press, and scientific journals of Madrid

during 1847 to 1848. This investigation allowed us to follow the most

relevant news dealing with the discovery of the drug and with its first

experimental and clinical applications in Madrid. Based on the present

bibliographic material we could establish a chronologic report of all

surgical interventions using chloroform that were performed in Madrid. We

conclude that albeit surgeons in Madrid were not the first to use

chloroform in Spain, they were, however, the ones who most extensively

used it. Their contribution was of relevance in the settlement of the new

anesthetic agent in Spain.

SO - Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim 1992 May-Jun;39(3):170-6

UI - 93026096

AU - Marx GF ; Katsnelson T

TI - The introduction of nitrous oxide analgesia into obstetrics.

AB - Nitrous oxide analgesia was introduced into obstetrics by a young

Polish-Russian physician who manufactured the gas himself, mixed it with

oxygen, humidified the mixture with water vapor, and devised a mouthpiece

for self-administration. After assessing the results on himself, he

evaluated the effects on pain relief, maternal emotion, and maternal and

fetal heart rates, as well as on the frequency, duration, and strength of

uterine contractions in 25 parturients. He recognized that, in contrast

to chloroform, nitrous oxide did not alter uterine activity. He concluded

that the advantages of nitrous oxide administration far outweighed its

disadvantages.

SO - Obstet Gynecol 1992 Oct;80(4):715-8

UI - 92411266

AU - Pitcock CD ; Clark RB

TI - From Fanny to Fernand: the development of consumerism in pain control

during the birth process.

AB - Obstetric anesthesia has been the object of public interest and patient

advocacy from its introduction in the 1840s to the present. Early

arguments concerned the significance of pain in childbearing and became a

popular issue involving physicians, clergymen, and journalists. The first

obstetric anesthesia, either, given in the United States was administered

in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1847. For the next several decades

general anesthesia was the only feasible means of relieving labor pain.

At the turn of the century a combination of scopolamine and morphine was

introduced in the United States by a popular women's magazine; the

National Twilight Sleep Association was launched. After the decline of

this movement, the "natural" childbirth method came into national

prominence. In spite of their differing pharmacologic characteristics,

there are sociologic parallels between the patient advocacy of Twilight

Sleep and that of psychoprophylaxis. This study focuses on the public

perception of these movements, which were begun by physicians and

subsequently endorsed by militant lay groups.

SO - Am J Obstet Gynecol 1992 Sep;167(3):581-7

UI - 92387781

AU - Rendell-Baker L

TI - History and evolution of pediatric anesthesia equipment.

SO - Int Anesthesiol Clin 1992 Summer;30(3):1-34

UI - 92383421

AU - Vaca JM ; Herrero MA ; Iglesias JL ; Cabal VJ ; Curto A ; Gomez S

TI - [The morphine-scopolamine combination in chloroform anesthesia]

AB - After introduction of surgical anesthesia with general agents such as

ether and chloroform, a large number of deaths due to anesthetic toxicity

were reported. With the aim to reduce toxicity several types of mixtures

were devised. One of the most important was the association of opioids

and scopolamine. This technique was compiled in a thesis on the use of

morphine and scopolamine during anesthesia with chloroform which was

presented by Dr. Jose Blasco Reta at the University of Madrid the 27th

of June of 1907. Claude Bernard was the first to use this technique. He

was based on the assumption that a previous injection of 1 cg of morphine

acetate will decrease both, the needs and the risk of chloroform since

this procedure shortened the excitation period, decreased ether-induced

bronchial congestion, and prolonged for several hours the analgesic

effect in the postoperative phase. The first who applied this technique

in Spain was Dr. Losada, and Dr. Emilio Ruiz observed the rapid action of

the mixture. After 1900, Schneiderlein added scopolamine in order to

decrease the excitation and to reduce vomiting secondary to the

association morphine-chloroform. Scopolamine was administered in 2 or 3

injections. Jun our country Dr. Lozano Monzon and Dr. Recasens used this

pharmacologic association and considered it of beneficial effects when

applied during labour. In a total number of 4,240 anesthetic procedures

using the same technique, Dr. Blasco Reta reported 24 deaths, among them

the first that occurred to Mr. Victor Escribano between 1902 and 1903.

Mortality was considered to be 1/1,000 cases.

SO - Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim 1992 Jul-Aug;39(4):239-45

UI - 92369253

AU - Wiedemann K ; Fleischer E

TI - [The history of anesthesia in thoracic surgery. The problem of

pneumothorax, intubation, one-lung ventilation]

SO - Anasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther 1992 Feb;27(1):3-10

UI - 92366290

AU - Papper EM

TI - The influence of romantic literature on the medical understanding of pain

and suffering--the stimulus to the discovery of anesthesia.

SO - Perspect Biol Med 1992 Spring;35(3):401-15

UI - 92352829

AU - Rowbotham DJ

TI - The development and safe use of patient-controlled analgesia [editorial;

comment]

CM - Comment on: Br J Anaesth 1992 Apr;68(4):411-3 ; Comment on: Br J Anaesth

1992 Apr;68(4):450

SO - Br J Anaesth 1992 Apr;68(4):331-2

UI - 92297978

AU - Rakatansky H

TI - First demonstration of anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital

[letter]

SO - R I Med 1992 May;75(5):237

UI - 92297701

AU - Van Sickel AD

TI - Clinical hypnosis in the practice of anesthesia.

AB - Hypnosis has been utilized for at least several hundred years, but the

societal view of hypnosis has ranged from raving to ridicule. The

advances of hypnosis as a scientific endeavor have occurred within the

last two centuries, but many myths and misunderstandings remain about the

nature of hypnosis and its effects on the subject. Hypnosis is being

recognized as having many medical applications. Important applications

for the anesthetist include hypnoanesthesia and hypnoanalgesia, which are

found to have some advantages in specific types of patients that present

for surgery.

SO - Nurse Anesth 1992 Jun;3(2):67-74

UI - 92285511

AU - Franco A ; Carregal A ; Vazquez L ; Boveda S ; Cortes J

TI - [The 1st self-experiments with ether performed by Spanish physicians in

the year 1847 (letter)]

SO - Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim 1992 Jan-Feb;39(1):60-1

UI - 92279555

AU - Franco A ; Cortes J ; Carceller J ; Cid M

TI - [Doctoral theses and memoirs about anesthesia. Documents for a history of

Spanish anesthesia]

AB - Based on the importance of document files and first-hand bibliographic

sources for studying the history, we have recently investigated the

chapter of Doctoral Thesis and Reports on anesthetic topics since we

believe that these are fundamental to gain insight into the knowledge of

our history. This investigation was planned to find such documents by

reviewing the data of several Spanish archives and libraries. We

collected 80 works: 14 Reports and 66 Doctoral Theses performed during a

period of 95 years (heuristic limits 1847-1942). These papers were

classified in several subgroups according to the subjects they deal with:

21 works on inhalation anesthesia, 7 on intravenous general anesthesia,

20 on spinal anesthesia, 10 on locoregional, 7 on anesthesia and

metabolism, 12 on obstetric anesthesia, and 3 works on varied anesthesia

issues. Analysis of these documents revealed that the authors (physicians

and Spanish medical corporations) undertook an accurate consideration of

the more relevant scientific subjects at the time of their investigation.

We conclude that the works analyzed in the present study represented the

beginning of the Spanish investigation on anesthesia. Further

investigations may contribute to enrich our historiography.

SO - Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim 1992 Mar-Apr;39(2):107-12

UI - 92270170

AU - Hutchinson BR

TI - A brief history of anaesthesia in New Zealand.

SO - N Z Med J 1992 May 13;105(933):175-7

UI - 92232103

AU - Jeyarajan R ; Cope AR

TI - Anaesthesia for reduction of anterior dislocations of the shoulder

[letter]

SO - Arch Emerg Med 1992 Mar;9(1):71

UI - 92231123

AU - Franco A ; Cortes J ; Vidal MI ; Alvarez J

TI - Early textbooks on anaesthesia [letter]

SO - Anaesthesia 1992 Mar;47(3):280-1

UI - 92226974

AU - Green D ; Walter J ; Heden R ; Menacker L

TI - The effects of local anesthetics containing epinephrine on digital blood

perfusion. 1978 [classical article]

AB - Digital perfusion research was conducted with two local anesthetics,

lidocaine and bupivacaine. The studies were performed utilizing both

anesthetic agents, plain and with various concentrations of epinephrine.

The drugs' effects on blood perfusion over a 24-hr. period were recorded

and discussed. The onset and duration of anesthesia were also compared.

SO - J Am Podiatr Med Assoc 1992 Feb;82(2):98-110

100

UI - 92223944

AU - Milhaud G

TI - First therapeutic use of calcitonin.

RF - REVIEW ARTICLE: 31 REFS.

SO - Bone Miner 1992 Mar;16(3):201-10

101

UI - 92163553

AU - Aronson SM

TI - This priceless gift to humanity.

SO - R I Med 1992 Feb;75(2):64-5

102

UI - 92161234

AU - Gray TC

TI - A golden jubilee to celebrate [editorial]

SO - Anaesthesia 1992 Jan;47(1):1-2

103

UI - 91376965

AU - Shabunin AV

TI - [History of the "Russian method" of anesthesia]

SO - Vestn Khir Im I I Grek 1991 Mar;146(3):132-3

104

UI - 92280280

AU - Thiery M

TI - [Cocaine and pain control in childbirth]

AB - Without absolutely any pain, women can live through the whole process of

birth-giving thanks to the discovery of cocaine (1860) and the work of

surgeons and obstetricians, who invented a whole range of locoregional

methods, and the chemists who delivered them safe substitutes for

cocaine. It was, as a matter of fact, a long way to go, but the final

result was surely worth the effort.

SO - Verh K Acad Geneeskd Belg 1991;53(5):507-30

105

UI - 92118581

TI - Intra-arterial regional analgesia [letter; comment]

CM - Comment on: Br J Anaesth 1991 Jun;66(6):719-20

SO - Br J Anaesth 1991 Dec;67(6):803-4

106

UI - 92116708

AU - Reinhold H

TI - The creation of modern anesthesia in Belgium.

SO - Acta Anaesthesiol Belg 1991;42(3):171-6

107

UI - 92080032

AU - Vermeulen-Cranch DM

TI - [The history of pain control in dentistry in The Netherlands]

AB - Pain control in The Netherlands used to be in the hands of surgeons.

Dentists were not allowed to use any drugs which could have a general

effect. In the Anglo-Saxon countries dentists and anaesthesiologists

working together since 1846 have achieved a high standard of pain

control. Anaesthesiology has been recognised in The Netherlands only

since 1948. The advantages of a sequence of possibilities for pain

control have since become available for dentistry in The Netherlands.

SO - Ned Tijdschr Tandheelkd 1991 Jul;98(7):278-82

108

UI - 92073645

AU - Franco Grande A ; Vazquez ML ; Cid M ; Freire J

TI - [The first operations performed with chloroform in Spain. More facts and

new contributions]

AB - Although the issue of clinical introduction of chloroform in Spain was

rather controversial, we can assure now with no doubt that first news of

its discovery reached our country by the end of November and beginning of

December of 1847. The cities first receiving those first news were

Cadiz, Madrid, Barcelona, and Santiago de Compostela; in the latter two

cities, during the first days of December, the new anesthetic agent was

already available and the first experiments on dogs were conducted in

19th Sunday and first clinical assays in Barcelona and in Santiago de

Compostela, the first experiments in Spain, were carried out in December

20th. Spanish scientific and daily press, particularly, press of

Barcelona and Madrid promptly reflected the events and informed their

readers about the discovery of chloroform as anesthetic. Our research

deals with some of these aspects and we believe that will contribute to

clarify not fully studied points to date.

SO - Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim 1991 May-Jun;38(3):182-8

109

UI - 92063316

AU - Eltringham RJ

TI - 25 years of anaesthesia.

SO - Br J Hosp Med 1991 Oct;46(4):210, 212

110

UI - 92059875

AU - Secher O

TI - First anaesthetics in the world [letter]

SO - Anaesthesia 1991 Oct;46(10):900-1

111

UI - 92056149

AU - Skadborg MK ; Ahlburg P ; Anker-Moller E ; Noreng MF ; Christensen JH

TI - [Continuous spinal analgesia. A review]

RF - REVIEW ARTICLE: 30 REFS.

AB - Continuous spinal analgesia is a recognized method of analgesia for

surgical interventions which was originally described in 1907. A brief

historical review is presented with a description of the current

technique. Emphasis is laid on comparison with other regional techniques,

particularly single-shot analgesia and epidural analgesia. A review is

presented of the current knowledge about technique, particularly the

equipment, analgesic agents, advantages and disadvantages and indications

and contraindications. it is concluded that continuous spinal analgesia

probably offers certain advantages, particularly cardiovascular

stability. However, the lack of randomized comparisons of the various

techniques make further clinically controlled investigations necessary to

illustrate this.

SO - Ugeskr Laeger 1991 Oct 7;153(41):2883-6

112

UI - 92018271

AU - McLellan MF

TI - "It could not have been done better in Philadelphia, Paris, or anywhere

else". The first fifty years of anesthesia in North Carolina (1846-1896).

SO - N C Med J 1991 Aug;52(8):399-404

113

UI - 91126465

AU - Weissmann G

TI - Aspirin.

SO - Sci Am 1991 Jan;264(1):84-90

114

UI - 91356383

AU - Lassner J

TI - [Deaths from anesthesia in the United States 40 years ago: data and

interpretation]

SO - Cah Anesthesiol 1991;39(3):211-3

115

UI - 91345919

AU - Wawersik J

TI - History of anesthesia in Germany.

AB - The first ether anesthetic was administered in Germany by J.F. Heyfelder

(1798-1869) at the Erlangen University Hospital on January 24, 1847.

Thereafter, famous discoveries occurred in the field of pharmacology.

Albert Niemann isolated cocaine from the coca shrub in 1860; Emil Fischer

synthesized the first barbiturate, Veronal, in 1902; and Helmut Weese

promoted the first ultra-short-acting barbiturate, hexobarbital (Evipan),

in 1932. The local anesthetic effect of cocaine was reported by Koller at

the Congress of the German Society for Ophthalmology on September 15,

1884, in Heidelberg. Many new techniques were tried first in German

hospitals. Friedrich Trendelenburg carried out, by tracheotomy, the first

operation with endotracheal intubation in 1869, and Franz Kuhn promoted

and clinically practiced endotracheal intubation in Heidelberg beginning

in 1900. August Bier performed the first operation under spinal

anesthesia at the Kiel University Hospital on August 16, 1898. Carl

Ludwig Schleich (1859-1922) standardized the methods of infiltration

anesthesia by using a cocaine solution in sufficient dilution. The

development of anesthesia machines was greatly influenced by Heinrich

Drager (1847-1917) and his son Bernhard Drager (1870-1928). The Drager

Company in Lubeck built the first anesthesia machine with a carbon

dioxide (CO2) absorber and circle system in 1925. Paul Sudeck and Helmut

Schmidt worked with this system at the Hamburg University Hospital and

reported their results in 1926. The first Drager anesthesia machine was

produced in 1902 and introduced into clinical use by Otto Roth

(1863-1944) in Lubeck. Before the Second World War, three universities

in Germany carried out research in the field of anesthesia: the

University of Freiburg with H. Killian, the University of Hamburg with P.

Sudeck and H. Schmidt, and the University of Wurzburg with C.G. Gauss.

Killian and Gauss established the first journals, Der Schmerz and Narkose

und Anaesthesie, in 1928. After the Second World War, the field of

anesthesia in Germany rapidly regained international standards. The

journal Der Anaesthesist was founded in 1952, and the German Society for

Anesthesiology and Intensive Medicine was established in 1953.

SO - J Clin Anesth 1991 May-Jun;3(3):235-44

116

UI - 91343791

AU - Vaca Miguel JM

TI - [Ether by the rectal route for the treatment of cholera (letter)]

SO - Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim 1991 Mar-Apr;38(2):129, 130-1

117

UI - 91343790

AU - Franco Grande A ; Freire J ; Carregal A

TI - [Ether anesthesia by the rectal route (letter)]

SO - Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim 1991 Mar-Apr;38(2):129-31

118

UI - 91343780

AU - Franco Grande A ; Banos Rodriguez G ; Carregal A ; Carceller J

TI - [History of the introduction of ether anesthesia in Spain. A new

contribution to its study]

AB - Ether anesthesia was introduced in Spain on January 13, 1847. Dr. Diego

de Argumosa y Obregon, from Madrid, was the first Spanish surgeon who

operated with the help of sulphuric ether. Almost at the same time, by

the end of January, the dentist Oliverio Machechan administered ether to

2 patients in whom he performed dental operations. Subsequently, ether

was used in several parts of Spain: Barcelona, Pamplona, Motril, and by

several Madrid surgeons through February and March. In Santiago de

Compostela ether was also introduced very soon, and, on the basis of the

data from the studies of Dr. Jose Gonzalez Olivares (the surgeons who

first tried it in that town), most authors dealing with this issue state

that it was probably in Santiago de Compostela where these experiments

were carried out simultaneously with those by Argumosa in Madrid or even

before. We have in some occasions defended that thesis; however, we were

not satisfied with it and we decided to reinvestigate the facts. We had

access to other sources and we concluded that anesthetics were really

used a very early phase in Santiago de Compostela, but in the case of

ether it was later than Argumosa and Oliverio Machechan used it in Madrid

and Mendoza in Barcelona. In the present article we analyze these facts

in detail, with emphasis on those that we consider historically relevant

and that had not been previously dealt with by any other author

addressing these issues.

SO - Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim 1991 Mar-Apr;38(2):102-8

119

UI - 91298460

AU - Cooper MG

TI - The first reported death associated with anaesthesia in Australia.

SO - Anaesth Intensive Care 1991 May;19(2):265-6

120

UI - 91296251

AU - Rubin MA

TI - General anesthesia in dentistry. A regulatory history.

SO - N Y State Dent J 1991 May;57(5):28-31

121

UI - 91241520

AU - Maltby JR

TI - The Woolley and Roe case [letter]

SO - Anaesthesia 1991 May;46(5):426

122

UI - 91203307

AU - Lundkvist P

TI - [Orthopedic medicine. A specialty without a history increases the

knowledge of muscle function diagnostics]

SO - Lakartidningen 1991 Mar 20;88(12):1056-7

123

UI - 91175099

AU - Olympio MA

TI - Postanesthetic delirium: historical perspectives.

AB - Postanesthetic delirium is a type of postoperative emotional response

occurring immediately after emergence from general anesthesia. Associated

with excitement and confusion, the alternative terms emergence delirium

or postanesthetic excitement are frequently used. Historically, the more

encompassing term postoperative psychosis is used interchangeably but

more frequently refers to those conditions occurring after a lucid

interval of 24 to 48 hours. Either phenomenon may arise from a variety of

disturbances, with drug reactions, hypoxemia, or reaction to pain being

common, or it may arise from psychological causes. Reported is a case of

postanesthetic delirium in a healthy young man. An historical overview of

this potentially harmful condition, with specific recommendations for

diagnosis and treatment, also is presented.

SO - J Clin Anesth 1991 Jan-Feb;3(1):60-3

124

UI - 91150421

AU - Severinghaus JW

TI - What's new with CO2?

SO - Acta Anaesthesiol Scand Suppl 1990;94:13-7

125

UI - 91273276

AU - Young ER

TI - Dental anesthesiology training at the University of Toronto--30 years

later.

SO - Anesth Prog 1990 Nov-Dec;37(6):304-5

126

UI - 91191383

AU - Lassner J

TI - [A turning point in the history of spinal anesthesia (published erratum

appears in Cah Anesthesiol 1991;39(6):preceding Table of Contents)]

SO - Cah Anesthesiol 1990;38(7):499-500

127

UI - 91159885

AU - Lassner J

TI - [The end of cyclopropane]

SO - Cah Anesthesiol 1990 Dec;38(6):437

128

UI - 91132869

AU - Glogov S

TI - [Endotracheal intubation--its evolution]

RF - REVIEW ARTICLE: 51 REFS.

AB - A historical review of the development of endotracheal intubation is

made. Clinical and some X-ray features, allowing to prognosticate the

difficult intubation are searched for. Classifications are suggested of

the possible reasons for difficulties. It is emphasized that at present

there are no reliable criteria for prognosticating difficult tracheal

intubation. The possible techniques which might help to overcome the

difficulties are indicated. Endotracheal intubation is a particularly

responsible element of general anesthesia and even highly experienced

anesthesiologists may be faced with difficulties. It is a stress moment

both for the patient and for the anesthesiologist. The signs through

which the anesthesiologist may determine the position of the tube and

rule out eventual esophageal intubation are systematized. Percentages are

given on the relative incidence of difficult intubations and fiber optic

intubations [correction of fibrointubations] in the different aspects of

operative surgery.

SO - Khirurgiia (Sofiia) 1990;43(3):65-73

129

UI - 91123490

AU - MacDonnell WA

TI - 150 years of anesthesia in dentistry: the sesquicentennial approaches

1844-1994.

SO - J Conn State Dent Assoc 1990 Fall;66(2):25-9

130

UI - 91104045

AU - Yamamura H

TI - History of anesthesia in Japan.

SO - J Clin Anesth 1990 Nov-Dec;2(6):369-72

131

UI - 91084164

AU - Heesom T

TI - 'The yankee dodge' [letter]

SO - Br Dent J 1990 Nov 10;169(9):277

132

UI - 91077865

AU - Hlavackova L ; Strnad J

TI - [The beginnings of local anesthesia in Czechoslovakia with special

emphasis on the Caslav Hospital]

SO - Cas Lek Cesk 1990 Oct 12;129(41):1303-4

133

UI - 91073675

AU - Matsuki A

TI - [The history of spinal anesthesia in Japan (7)--1946-1988]

SO - Masui 1990 Oct;39(10):1417-26

134

UI - 91057306

AU - Schiller F

TI - The history of algology, algotherapy, and the role of inhibition.

AB - Cephalalgia (1st century AD), nostalgia (1678), neuralgia (18th century),

causalgia (1872) were terms followed in the 1950's by Bonica's

'algology... a disease state of its own', addressed by ever-growing

numbers of pain clinics, strongly foreshadowed by Leriche's douleur

maladie in the 1930's. (Hence also 'algotherapy'). Philosophers first,

then early academic physiologists began to exhibit interest in pain, that

all too common phenomenon, only too often unyielding to theoretical as

well as practical efforts. Was it, after all, an instance of built-in

self-preservation, a reflex? Identification of the nervous energy and its

anatomical pathways in the 19th century, endless arguments as to their

'specificity', led to new surgical attempts to control and interpret

pain, by now supported by general, then local anesthesia. Early in this

century Henry Head's much-discussed notion of 'epicritic' sensation

exerting some control over 'protopathic' pain was soon followed by

Otfried Foerster's insistence on a central role of inhibition providing

pain relief. Almost forgotten, Foerster's idea found expression in

Melzack and Wall's 'gate control theory' of 1965. Gasser and Erlanger's

classification of sensory nerve fibers began to dominate research in the

1930's thanks to the cathode ray oscillograph invented in 1897. The pain

inhibition concept was given another boost in the seventies when the role

of the midline mesencephalic and oblongata nuclei was established as both

opium receptors and producers of opioids. Finally, inhibition may also be

seen as the principle underlying the age-old therapeutic effect of

'counter-irritation', mostly in the form of electrical stimulation.

SO - Pubbl Stn Zool Napoli [II] 1990;12(1):27-49

135

UI - 91026405

AU - Sykes P

TI - Badges of the dental profession. The International Federation of Dental

Anesthesiology Societies.

SO - Br Dent J 1990 Oct 6;169(7):221

136

UI - 91004536

AU - O'Connor JP

TI - Nitrous oxide 1844-1990 [editorial; comment]

CM - Comment on: Can J Anaesth 1990 Sep;37(6):613-7

SO - Can J Anaesth 1990 Sep;37(6):603-7

137

UI - 90378900

AU - Somerson SJ

TI - Historical perspectives on anesthetic-related cardiac arrest and

resuscitation.

AB - Contemporary interest in resuscitation was historically related to

anesthetic death. Primitive techniques of anesthetic administration, loss

of airway control, and psychologically influenced sudden death

contributed to unanticipated respiratory and cardiac arrest. Airway

obstruction has remained the principal factor in asphyxial death,

necessitating crucial preservation of respiratory function during

induction of anesthesia. Early, disorganized overdose and arrest

interventions included: application of cold water, manual artificial

respiration, heat, friction and galvanic battery application.

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, after years of research and

experimentation became an integrated plan of attack: mouth-to-mouth

ventilation and maneuvers eliminating pharyngeal obstruction were proven

effective; internal and external cardiac massage was incorporated and

definitive drug therapy began with epinephrine, strychnine, caffeine,

carbon dioxide, amyl nitrate, coramine, metrazol and procaine.

Defibrillation proved electricity converted ventricular fibrillation to

normal sinus rhythm. Significant lethality still occurs from

anesthetic-induced cardiac arrest, despite technological advances. Causes

of operating room cardiac arrests are numerous and include sudden death

syndrome. Constant vigilance distinguishes variable patient response.

Immediate recognition and coordinated intervention assures success.

SO - AANA J 1990 Aug;58(4):288-95

138

UI - 90356865

AU - Vaca Miguel JM

TI - [Spinal anesthesia using a strychnine-stovaine combination in Spain (see

comments)]

CM - Comment in: Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim 1993 Mar-Apr;40(2):101-2

AB - Since, in 1898, Augustus Bier developed the injection of anesthetic

agents in the intradural space following Corning's technique, there have

been many changes in the technique to the present day. One of the most

popular was rachi-striene-stovainization, which was introduced by

Jonnesco and attempted to replace general anesthesia (general

rachianesthesia). We describe the original technique, its development and

the modifications introduced by two Spanish physicians, Drs. Sagarra and

Bartrina. We also discuss its advantages and drawbacks.

SO - Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim 1990 May-Jun;37(3):149-52

139

UI - 90297411

AU - Goerig M

TI - Pioneering curare in anesthesia [letter; comment]

CM - Comment on: Anesthesiology 1989 Sep;71(3):480-1

SO - Anesthesiology 1990 Jul;73(1):189-90

140

UI - 90285857

AU - Stampone D

TI - The history of obstetric anesthesia.

SO - J Perinat Neonatal Nurs 1990 Jul;4(1):1-13

141

UI - 90283293

AU - Crankshaw DP

TI - Inhalation anaesthetics and invertebrates [letter; comment]

CM - Comment on: Br J Anaesth 1989 Oct;63(4):489-91

SO - Br J Anaesth 1990 May;64(5):649

142

UI - 90246058

AU - Klutz A ; Piret R

TI - [History of medicine. Souvenirs and the tales of 2 anesthetists from

their beginnings in Liege]

SO - Rev Med Liege 1990 Apr;45(4):172-86

143

UI - 90226953

AU - Bodman R

TI - Deja vu [letter]

SO - Br J Anaesth 1990 Mar;64(3):406

144

UI - 90222660

AU - Vaca Miguel JM

TI - [First experiments with chloroform in Spain (letter)]

SO - Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim 1990 Jan-Feb;37(1):42-3

145

UI - 90178614

AU - Just OH

TI - [25 years of "Anasthesie, Intensivtherapie, Notfallmedizin" (editorial)]

SO - Anasth Intensivther Notfallmed 1990 Jan;25 Suppl 1:1-2

146

UI - 90164997

AU - Carlsson C ; Cooper S

TI - One hundred thirty-six years of ether anesthesia [letter]

SO - Anesth Analg 1990 Mar;70(3):339-40

147

UI - 90149853

AU - Bourassa M

TI - [Clinical hypnosis]

AB - The purpose of this article is to define and describe the hypnosis

phenomena. After a brief historical survey, we will discuss the

suggestibility concept, and its application in dentistry.

SO - J Can Dent Assoc 1990 Jan;56(1):59-62

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UI - 90098064

AU - Lee BG

TI - More on the date of the first use of ether in surgery [letter]

SO - N Engl J Med 1990 Jan 25;322(4):275

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