1848 BIGELOW, Henry Jacob (1818 – 1890)
Ether and chloroform: a compendium of their history, surgical use, dangers and discovery.
Bigelow’s speedy publication of Morton’s discovery (No. 5651), and his subsequent advocacy of ether as an anesthetic assured its adoption throughout the civilized world. The above work deals with the priority claims o…
GMN 5730 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6486
1850 BOUISSON, Étienne-Frédéric (1813 – 1884)
Traité théorique et pratique de la méthode anesthésique appliquée a la chirurgie et aux différentes branches de l'art de guérir.
Of particular interest for the introductory chapter 2 on pain produced in surgical operations and chapter 3 on the history of the understanding and attempts at treatment of pain, surgical and otherwise, before ether a…
GMN 9383 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11566
1861 JACKSON, Charles Thomas (1805 – 1880)
A manual of etherization: Containing directions for the employment of ether, chloroform, and other anaesthetic agents, by inhalation, in surgical operations, Intended for military and naval surgeons, and all who may be exposed to surgical operations, with Instructions for the preparation of ether and chloroform, and for testing them for Impurities. comprising, also, a brief history of the discovery of anaesthesia.
Jackson's most detailed exposition of anesthesia, including a summary of the early history of its discovery, written for American Civil War physicians and surgeons. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this …
GMN 7867 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10039
1939 CLAYE, Sir Andrew Moynihan (1896 – 1977)
The evolution of obstetric analgesia.
GMN 6304 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8047
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 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 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
1965 VELLARD, Jehan Albert (1901 – 1996)
Histoire du curare. Les poisons de chasse en Amérique du Sud.
GMN 2068.8 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2403
1965 COLE, Frank (1909 – )
Milestones in anesthesia. Readings in the development of surgical anesthesia, 1665-1940.
First-hand accounts of discoveries and advances in anesthesia.
GMN 5733.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6498
1965 KEYS, Thomas Edward (1908 – 1995); FAULCONER, Albert Jr. (1911 – 1985)
Foundations of anesthesiology. 2 vols.
An anthology of 150 papers on anesthesia and related topics, from the 16th century to 1961.
GMN 5733.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7507
1971 RUSSELL, Kenneth Fitzpatrick (1911 – 1987); SIMPSON, Sir James Young (1811 – 1870)
A list of the works of Sir James Young Simpson, 1811-1870: A centenary tribute by K. F. Russell and F. M. C. Forster.
GMN 13181 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15442
1975 THOMAS, Kenneth Bryn (1916 – 1978)
The development of anaesthetic apparatus. A history based on the Charles King Collection of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland.
GMN 5733.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6504
1982 SMITH, William Denis Ashley (1918 – 2002)
Under the influence. A history of nitrous oxide and oxygen anaesthesia.
The most comprehensive work on the subject. Articles reprinted primarily from Brit. J. Anaesth., with new introduction and index.
GMN 5733.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6506
1985 PERNICK, Martin S. (1948 – )
A calculus of suffering: Pain, professionalism and anesthesia in nineteenth-century America.
GMN 10054 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12243
1989 ATKINSON, Richard Stuart (1927 – 2000); BOULTON, Tbomas Babington (1925 – 2016)
The history of anesthesia
Proceedings of the 1987 Second International Symposium on the History of Anaesthesia at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Over 100 contributors. International Congress and Symposium Series 134.
GMN 5733.41 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6508
1991 MUSHIN, William Woolf (1910 – 1993); RENDELL-BAKER, Leslie (1917 – 2008)
The origins of thoracic anesthesia.
GMN 12363 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14587
1994 WOLFE, Richard J.; MENCZER, Leonard F. (1917 – 1994)
I Awaken to glory: Essays celebrating the sesquicentennial of the discovery of anesthesia by Horace Wells, December 11, 1844–December 11, 1994.
Edited by Wolfe and Menczer. Includes a reproduction of Wells's casebook.
GMN 7647 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9819
1998 BERGMAN, Norman A. (1926 – 1999)
The genesis of surgical anesthesia.
Treats the history of surgical anesthesia from the earliest time through the work of John Snow (1813-1858).
GMN 9774 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11962
2001 MORTON, William Thomas Green (1819 – 1868); WOLFE, Richard J.
Tarnished Idol: William Thomas Green Morton and the introduction of surgical anesthesia. A chronicle of the ether controversy
The most comprehensive biography of Morton, and the most comprehensive account of the ether controversy between Morton and Charles Thomas Jackson.
GMN 6903 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9067
2001 DAVENPORT-HINES, Richard (1953 – )
The pursuit of oblivion: A global history of narcotics.
GMN 10895 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13091
2005 CORTÉS LAÍÑO, Joaquín; FRANCO GRANDE, Avelino; ÁLVAREZ ESCUDERO, Julián
Historia de la anestesia en España. 1847-1940.
GMN 12559 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14798
2007 WOLFE, Richard J.; JACKSON, Charles Thomas (1805 – 1880); PATTERSON, Richard
Charles Thomas Jackson: “The head behind the hands.” Applying science to implement discovery and invention in early nineteenth century America
The first biography of Jackson, the physician and geologist who discoverered of the anesthetic effects of ether, and also played an important role in the discovery of the American electro-magnetic telegraph. Forms a s…
GMN 7646 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9818
2013 WEBSTER, Nigel R.; GALLEY, Helen
Landmark papers in anaesthesia. Edited by Nigel Webster and Helen Galley.
GMN 12391 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14618
