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Dear AJ,

I am sending a copy of the following notice to anes-hist, but would be grateful if you would make it known to AHA members who are not on the Net. All visitors will be very welcome, but as explained, the Science Museum requires as a condition of lending items that it be not a ‘public’ exhibition, non-member visitors being regarded as guests of the Association.

Concentration, Concentration, Concentration

The 1998 exhibition in the Charles King Museum of the Association of Anaesthetists, 9 Bedford Square, London WC1, UK, celebrates the centenary of the contributions of Augustus D. Waller towards safer general anaesthesia, the so-called ‘dosimetric’ movement - in fact the second such, since, as the exhibition demonstrates, the first dosimetric movement was initiated by John Snow in 1847.

In 1887 Waller made the first recording of the human ECG, and some of the apparatus he used is on show, on loan from the Science Museum. Other notable items, out of the many on display, include his Dubois chloroform apparatus, the temperature compensated chloroform vaporizers designed by Harcourt, Alcock, and Levy, and the modern version of the chloroform balance constructed by the Drs. Fox of New York, and presented to the Association in 1968. The exhibition is fully documented, and the diligent visitor can expect to spend up to one hour going round it.

The exhibition is open to members of the Association from 10am to 5pm on weekdays from mid-January to the end of November. Non-members wishing to visit are asked to phone 0171 631 1650 first. They will be made very welcome, but this requirement is a condition under which items are loaned by the Science Museum.

With best wishes over the festive season, and for the New Year, Yours, DZ.