1884 OTIS, Fessenden Nott (1825 – 1900)
The hydrochlorate of cocaine in genito-urinary procedures.
Local anesthesia first employed in urology.
GMN 4179 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6073
1884 KOLLER, Carl (1857 – 1944)
Vorläufige Mitteilung über locale Anästheserung am Auge.
Introduction of cocaine as a local anesthetic; this was the first local anesthetic employed (16 September 1884). Freud (No. 1880.1) is accredited by some with this innovation, but in this connection see the letter by …
GMN 5678 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7365
1885 HALSTED, William Stewart (1852 – 1922)
Practical comments on the use and abuse of cocaine; suggested by its invariably successful employment in more than a thousand minor surgical operations.
The first experiments on local infiltration anesthesia were made by Halsted, who even produced anesthesia by the intradermal injection of water. Through the process of self-experimentation Halsted became addicted to c…
GMN 5679 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7369
1886 CORNING, James Leonard (1855 – 1923)
Local anesthesia in general medicine and surgery.
The first textbook on local anesthesia.
GMN 5680.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7376
1904 FOURNEAU, Ernest (1872 – 1949)
Stovaine, anesthésique locale.
Introduction of stovaine, 1903.
GMN 5690 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7423
1905 BRAUN, Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm (1862 – 1934)
Die Lokalanästhesie, ihre wissenschaftliche Grundlagen und praktische Anwendung.
Braun’s important book on local anesthesia greatly stimulated the development of that subject. English translation, Philadelphia, 1914.
GMN 5691 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7425
1914 PAUCHET, Victor (1869 – 1936); SOURDAT, Paul
L’anesthésie régionale.
There was a second edition in 1917. Gaston Labat was the third co-author of the third edition (1921). Labat published his own book in English in 1922, the first work in English on the subject.
GMN 5704 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6411
1922 LABAT, Gaston Louis (1877 – 1934)
Regional anesthesia: Its technic and clinical application. With a foreward by William J. Mayo.
First work in English on regional anesthesia. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 12842 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15089
