{"title":"A Forgotten Contribution to Early Anesthesia Literature: The Chloroform Problem","authors":"Michael G Cooper , David J Wilkinson","doi":"10.1016/j.janh.2018.07.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janh.2018.07.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Dr. Richard Gill published a textbook in London in 1906 titled <em>The CHCl<sub>3</sub> – Problem</em><span>. Gill was the Chief Chloroformist at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, and was recognized as an excellent clinical anesthetist and was of an intelligent but reclusive and eccentric personality. This textbook is rarely found and has not been appreciated in the history of anesthesia for several reasons including that it was generally ignored at publication and few copies exist in libraries around the world. </span><em>The CHCl</em><sub><em>3</em></sub> <em>Problem</em> is written in a verbose, archaic, and convoluted fashion and is rarely quoted. It has no references whatsoever.</p><p>Gill was extensively quoted by one of his students who returned to Australia, Dr. John W Bean, which brought the book to the authors’ attention. It was found on the Internet, and a copy from the Boston Medical Library had been scanned and was available as a print-on-demand.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":38044,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anesthesia History","volume":"4 4","pages":"Pages 227-230"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.janh.2018.07.005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71836830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Following the Footprints of William Willis: A University of Edinburgh Graduate Who Provided Modern Medical Service and Broadened Humanity During the Civil War in Japan","authors":"Hiroshi Makino , Kentaro Dote , Hirosato Kikuchi","doi":"10.1016/j.janh.2018.11.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.janh.2018.11.010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38044,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anesthesia History","volume":"4 4","pages":"Page 249"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.janh.2018.11.010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45186355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wartime and Combat Anesthesia","authors":"David B. Waisel MD","doi":"10.1016/j.janh.2018.11.014","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.janh.2018.11.014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38044,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anesthesia History","volume":"4 4","pages":"Pages 203-204"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.janh.2018.11.014","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36791247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Allied Anesthetic?: De Preissac's Political Cartoon of Hitler's Surgery","authors":"Mariya Pogrebetskaya , George S. Bause","doi":"10.1016/j.janh.2017.09.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.janh.2017.09.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>During World War II, the French Resistance used political cartoons while fighting for France's freedom from Nazi domination. Reprinting Jean de Preissac's 1945 political cartoon of Allied leaders operating as Hitler's anesthetist and surgeons, a commemorative postcard was issued on the 20th anniversary of the radio broadcast credited with founding the French Resistance, General Charles de Gaulle's “Appeal of 18 June 1940.”</p></div>","PeriodicalId":38044,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anesthesia History","volume":"4 4","pages":"Pages 233-234"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.janh.2017.09.006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36780493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Highs and Lows of Recreational Drug Use in Anesthesia: A Historical Perspective","authors":"Erica Morris","doi":"10.1016/j.janh.2018.11.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.janh.2018.11.007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38044,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anesthesia History","volume":"4 4","pages":"Page 246"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.janh.2018.11.007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49405689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"","authors":"Theodore A. Alston","doi":"10.1016/j.janh.2018.02.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.janh.2018.02.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38044,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anesthesia History","volume":"4 4","pages":"Pages 231-232"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.janh.2018.02.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43650641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Legacy of Eve's Curse: Religion, Childbirth Pain, and the Rise of Anesthesia in Europe: c. 1200-1800s","authors":"Carolyn Corretti , Sukumar P. Desai","doi":"10.1016/j.janh.2018.03.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.janh.2018.03.009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38044,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anesthesia History","volume":"4 3","pages":"Pages 182-190"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.janh.2018.03.009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36493379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Anesthetic for the General","authors":"Gale E. Thompson","doi":"10.1016/j.janh.2018.05.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.janh.2018.05.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38044,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anesthesia History","volume":"4 3","pages":"Page 199"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.janh.2018.05.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44226491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lauren G. Keeney, Mary J. Hargett, Gregory A. Liguori
{"title":"Charles Burstein, MD: First Director of Anesthesiology at Hospital for Special Surgery","authors":"Lauren G. Keeney, Mary J. Hargett, Gregory A. Liguori","doi":"10.1016/j.janh.2018.04.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.janh.2018.04.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Charles L. Burstein was the first departmental Director and Chief of Anesthesiology at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. He joined the staff in 1937, when the hospital was still known by its original name of the Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled. In 1940, it was renamed The Hospital for Special Surgery. Burstein, an early disciple of Emery Rovenstine, accomplished much to advance the Department of Anesthesiology through academic collaborations, education, clinical specialization, and research. He laid the groundwork for the future success of a department that continues to thrive to this day in clinical and academic orthopedic anesthesia.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":38044,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Anesthesia History","volume":"4 3","pages":"Pages 171-176"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.janh.2018.04.004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36493377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}