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
1914 GWATHMEY, James Tayloe (1865 – 1944)
Anesthesia.
Gwathmey was one of the first physicians in the United States to specialize exclusively in anesthesiology. This work includes (p. 334) a description of his nitrous oxide-oxygen-ether apparatus.
GMN 5699.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8961
1915 LYNCH, Frank Worthington (1871 – 1945)
Eutocia by means of nitrous oxide gas analgesia; a safe substitute for the Freiburg method.
GMN 6218 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7634
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
1920 KAPPIS, Max (1881 – 1938)
Zur Technik der Splanchnicusanästhesie.
Splanchnic anesthesia. See also Dtsch. med. Wschr., 1920, 46, 535.
GMN 5701 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6408
1921 PAGÉS, Fidel [PAGÉS MIRAVÉ] (1886 – 1923)
Anestesia metamérica.
Introduction of epidural anesthesia.
GMN 5702 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6409
1921 ROWBOTHAM, Edgar Stanley (1890 – 1979); MAGILL, Sir Ivan Whiteside (1888 – 1986)
Anaesthetics in the plastic surgery of the face and jaws.
Intratracheal insufflation method of anesthetization. See also Magill, I. W., Lancet, 1921, 1, 918; 1923, 2, 229.
GMN 5703 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6410
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
1923 LUCKHARDT, Arno Benedict (1885 – 1957); CARTER, Jay Bailey (1899 – )
Physiologic effects of ethylene; a new gas anesthetic.
Introduction of ethylene.
GMN 5705 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6413
1923 PAGE, Irvine Heinly (1901 – 1991)
Isoamyl ethyl barbituric acid-an anesthetic without influence on blood sugar regulation.
Sodium amytal described.
GMN 5706 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6414
1925 HENDERSON, Yandell (1873 – 1944)
A lecture on respiration in anaesthesia: Control by carbon dioxide.
Henderson’s important investigations on the physiology of respiration included his demonstration of the relation of acapnia to anesthesia and the recommendation that carbon dioxide inhalation be used to overcome colla…
GMN 5707 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6415
1926 MCKESSON, Elmer Isaac (1881 – 1935)
Some physical factors in the administration of gaseous ether.
McKesson introduced the intermittent flow method.
GMN 5707.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6416
1927 EICHHOLTZ, Fritz (1889 – 1967)
Ueber rektale Narkose mit Avertin (E 107).
Experimental use of “avertin’’ (tribromethanol).
GMN 5708 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6417
1927 BUTZENGEIGER, O
Klinische Erfahrungen mit Avertin (E 107).
First clinical use of “avertin”.
GMN 5709 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6420
1928 BROWNE, Sir Denis (1892 – 1942)
Anaesthesia for tonsillectomy and removal of adenoids.
Denis Browne ether inhaler.
GMN 5709.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6422
1929 KIRSCHNER, Martin (1879 – 1942)
Eine psycheschonende und steuerbare Form der Allgemeinbetäubung.
Intravenous use of “avertin”.
GMN 5710 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6424
1929 LUCAS, George Herbert William (1894 – 1974); HENDERSON, Velyien Ewart (1877 – 1945)
A new anaesthetic gas: Cyclopropane. A preliminary report.
GMN 5711 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6426
1929 ZERFAS, Leon Grotius (1897 – 1978); ET AL
Induction of anesthesia in man by intravenous injection of sodium isoamyl-ethyl barbiturate.
Sodium amytal (Amobarbitol). With J. T. C. McCallum, H. A. Shonle, E. E. Swanson, J. B. Scott, and G. H. A. Clowes.
GMN 5712 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6428
1930 TATUM, Arthur Lawrie (1884 – 1955); FITCH, Richard Homer (1903 – ); WATERS, Ralph Milton (1883 – 1979)
The intravenous use of the barbituric acid hypnotics in surgery.
Intravenous use of pentobarbitone sodium.
GMN 5712.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6430
1930 LEAKE, Chauncey Depew (1896 – 1978); CHEN, Mei-Yu
The anesthetic properties of certain unsaturated ethers.
Demonstration of the anesthetic properties of divinyl ether.
GMN 5713 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6431
1932 WEESE, Hellmut (1897 – 1954); SCHARPFF, Walther (1894 – 1974)
Evipan, ein neuartiges Einschlafmittel.
Introduction of evipan (hexobarbitone).
GMN 5714 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6433
1933 GELFAN, Samuel (1903 – 1975); BELL, I. R.
The anesthetic action of divinyl oxide on humans.
Clinical application of divinyl ether.
GMN 5715 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6436
1934 JACKSON, Dennis Emerson (1878 – )
A study of anesthesia and analgesia, with special reference to such substances as trichlorethylene and vinesthene (divinyl ether), together with apparatus for their administration.
Experimental use of trichlorethylene as anesthetic.
GMN 5716 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6439
1934 STILES, John Alden (1905 – ); WATERS, Ralph Milton (1883 – 1979); ET AL
Cyclopropane as an anesthetic agent: a preliminary clinical report.
First clinical use of cyclopropane. With W. B. Neff, and E. A. Rovenstine.
GMN 5717 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6440
1934 WATERS, Ralph Milton (1883 – 1979); SCHMIDT, Erwin Rudolf (1890 – 1961)
Cyclopropane anesthesia.
Closed circuit method.
GMN 5718 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6444
1934 MINNITT, Robert James (1889 – 1974)
A new technique for the self-administration of gas-air analgesia in labour.
Introduction of the “Minnitt apparatus”.
GMN 6228 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7660
1935 KING, Harold (1887 – 1956)
Curare.
Isolation from curare of d-tubocurarine chloride.
GMN 5719 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6447
1935 LUNDY, John Silas (1894 – 1973)
Intravenous anesthesia: preliminary report of the use of two new thiobarbiturates.
Introduction of thiopentone sodium.
GMN 5720 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6448
1935 STRIKER, Cecil (1897 – 1976); ET AL
Clinical experiences with the use of trichlorethylene in the production of over 300 analgesias and anesthesias.
Human anesthetization with trichlorethylene. With S. Goldblatt, I. S. Warm, and D. E. Jackson.
GMN 5721 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6450
1939 FLAGG, Paluel Joseph (1886 – 1970)
The art of anesthesia. 6th ed.
Flagg had an important influence on American anesthesia. The Flagg can is described on p. 148 of his book.
GMN 5721.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6452
1939 CLAYE, Sir Andrew Moynihan (1896 – 1977)
The evolution of obstetric analgesia.
GMN 6304 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8047
1940 LEMMON, William Thomas (1896 – 1974)
A method of continous spinal anesthesia. A preliminary note.
Continous spinal analgesia introduced.
GMN 5722 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6455
1941 EPSTEIN, Hans Georg (1909 – 2002)
The Oxford vaporiser No. 1.
With R. R. Macintosh and K. Mendelssohn. The Oxford vaporiser No. 2 is described in the same journal, pp. 64-66 by S. L. Cowan, R. D. Scott, and S. F. Suffolk.
GMN 5723 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6456
1942 GRIFFITH, Harold Randall (1894 – 1985); MACLEOD, Enid Johnson (1909 – 2001)
The use of curare in general anesthesia.
Introduction of curare in anesthesia.
GMN 5724 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6458
1942 HINGSON, Robert Andrew (1913 – 1996); EDWARDS, Waldo Berry (1905 – 1981)
Continuous caudal anesthesia during labor and delivery.
GMN 6232.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7863
1943 MACINTOSH, Sir Robert Reynolds (1897 – 1989)
A new laryngoscope.
Macintosh larygnoscope.
GMN 13709 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15993
1944 FLEMING, Sir Alexander (1881 – 1955); SUCHET, Jack (1908 – 2001); ET AL
Penicillin content of blood serum after various doses of penicillin by various routes.
In this paper Fleming and colleagues explained how to choose routes of administration of penicillin as well as dosage, and reproduced the graphs/figures that showed blood levels achieved with different doses and route…
GMN 12599 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14839
1945 KEYS, Thomas Edward (1908 – 1995)
The history of surgical anesthesia.
Reprinted with corrections and additions, 1963. Reprint, 1978.
GMN 5732 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6489
1946 BOVET, Daniel (1907 – 1992); ET AL
Propriétés curarisantes du di-iodoéthylate de bis-[quinoléyloxy-8’] 1.5-pentane.
Introduction of gallamine triethiodide (“flaxedil”). With S. Courvoisier, R. Ducrot, And R. Horclois. See also the same journal, 1947, 225, 74.
GMN 5725 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6461
1946 FULTON, John Farquhar (1899 – 1960); STANTON, Madeline Earle (1898 – 1980)
The centennial of surgical anesthesia. An annotated catalogue of books and pamphlets bearing on the early history of surgical anesthesia exibited at the Yale Medical Library.
GMN 5732.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6493
1946 ELLIS, E. S.
Ancient anodynes: Primitive anaesthesia and allied conditions.
GMN 8634 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10811
1946 ROBINSON, Victor (1866 – 1947)
Victory over pain: A history of anesthesia.
GMN 8901 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11079
1947 MCINTYRE, Archibald Ross (1902 – )
Curare, its history, nature, and clinical use.
GMN 2090 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2571
1947 HERRELL, Wallace Edgar (1909 – 1992); HEILMAN, Fordyce Russell (1905 – 1960); ET AL
Procaine penicillin G (duracillin); a new salt of penicillin which prolongs the action of penicillin.
Procaine benzylpenicillin also known as penicillin G procaine was developed by Herrell and colleagues. With D.R. Nichols.
GMN 1939 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2793
1947 DUNCUM, Barbara Mary (1910 – 2001)
The development of inhalation anaesthesia, with special reference to the years 1846-1900.
Publications of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, New series, No. 2. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 5733 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6495
1949 BOVET, Daniel (1907 – 1992); BOVET-NITTI, Filomena (1909 – 1994); ET AL
Proprietà farmacodinamiche di alcuni derivati della succinilcolina dotati di azione curarica. Esteri di trialchiletanolammonio di acidi bicarbossilici alifatici.
Introduction of succinylcholine chloride. With S. Guarino, V. G. Longo, and M. Marotta.
GMN 5728 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6471
1951 BRÜCKE, H; ET AL
Bis-Cholinester von Dicarbonsäuren als Muskelrelaxantien in derNarkose.
Clinical use of succinylcholine chloride. With K. H. Ginzel, H. Klupp, F. Pfaffenschlager, and G. Werner.
GMN 5729 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6474
1952 MOSS, Aaron A.
Hypnodontics: Hypnosis in dentistry.
"Accepted by the American Dental Association."
GMN 13527 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15804
1953 KRANTZ, John Christian Jr. (1899 – 1983); ET AL
Anesthesia: XL. The anesthetic action of trifluoroethyl vinyl ether.
Fluroxene, first fluorine-containing anesthetic. With C. J. Carr, Go Lu and F. K. Bell.
GMN 5729.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6477
1954 KRAMER, Samuel Noah (1897 – 1990)
First pharmacopeia in man's recorded history.
The most ancient testimony concerning the opium poppy found to date was inscribed in cuneiform script on a small white clay tablet at the end of the third millennium BC. This tablet was discovered in 1954 during excav…
GMN 11916 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14121
