1894 HEWITT, Sir Frederic William (1857 – 1916)

Further observations on the use of oxygen with nitrous oxide.

Includes description of Hewitt’s nitrous oxide/oxygen stopcock.

GMN 5682.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7384

1905 KUHN, Franz (1866 – 1929)

Perorale Tubagen mit und ohne Druck.

Kuhn introduced the intratracheal insufflation method of anesthetization about 1900; he used a flexible metal tube and a curved introducer. He also experimented with positive and negative pressure insufflation.

GMN 5693 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7432

1911 MCKESSON, Elmer Isaac (1881 – 1935)

Nitrous oxide-oxygen anaesthesia. With a description of a new apparatus.

Intermittent gas-oxygen machine.

GMN 5697 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7446

1912 BOOTHBY, Walter Meredith (1880 – 1953); COTTON, Frederick Jay (1869 – 1938)

Nitrous oxide-oxygen-ether anesthesia: notes on administration; a perfected apparatus.

Boothby and Cotton’s flowmeter.

GMN 5698 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7448

1913 KELLY, Sir Robert Ernest (1879 – 1944)

Intratracheal anaesthesia.

Kelly’s intratracheal ether apparatus.

GMN 5699.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7456

1916 SHIPWAY, Sir Francis Edward (1875 – 1968)

The advantages of warm anaesthetic vapours, and an apparatus for their administration.

Shipway apparatus.

GMN 5699.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7458

1917 –1918 BOYLE, Henry Edmund Gaskin (1875 – 1941)

Nitrous oxide-oxygen-ether outfit.

Boyle’s continous-flow anesthetic machine.

GMN 5700 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7462